A native of the Bay Area, Nathan Brahms received his Sc.B. from Brown University in 2001. He attended graduate school at Harvard, working with John Doyle on buffer gas cooling experiments with weakly magnetic atoms. He earned his Ph.D. in 2008, and worked as a post-doc with Dan Kleppner at MIT before joining the Stamper-Kurn group in 2009.
Some MATLAB functions written by Nathan can be found here.