Hello, I'm a research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory involved in various modeling, simulation, and programming activities. I currently work on external instrument control and interconnected device programming for scientific research. Previous areas of research include fluidized bed reactors, battery cells and battery packs, rotor dynamics, water treatment, and biomass pyrolysis. I am also creator of the Numerix Swift package, Un1ts macOS app, Chemics Python package, BioComp web app, and the Genja static website generator. I was organizer of the KnoxPy Python users group along with the Knoxville CocoaHeads group for iOS and macOS developers.
Contact me via Email or Mastodon. Donations to support my open-source work can be made through GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, or PayPal. More information about my software, presentations, and publications is given below.
Software
My open-source tools and Mac apps are listed below. See my GitHub profile for more information about my open-source projects.
BioComp BioComp is an open-source web tool for estimating biomass composition from ultimate and chemical analysis data. This web app is built in Python using the Streamlit package. It's hosted for free on GitHub so the initial loading time may be slow.
Chemics Chemics is a Python package for chemical reactor engineering. This open-source package contains functions for performing calculations in the field of chemical and fluidization engineering.
Genja Genja is a simple static website generator. It is a command line tool built in Python that generates HTML files and a JSON feed from Markdown content.
Numerix Numerix is an open-source Swift package that provides Complex, Vector, Matrix, and ShapedArray structures for performing linear algebra and other numerical computations on Apple devices.
Un1ts Un1ts is a comprehensive unit converter for the Mac. The original version of the app was written in Objective-C and was temporarily removed from the App Store. I have rereleased Un1ts as a completely new version written in Swift and SwiftUI to support the latest features of macOS.
WeathrClip WeathrClip provided current weather conditions, 5-day forecast, hourly forecast, and precipitation radar for the Mac and iPhone. I discontinued this app because the Weather Underground API is no longer available.
Presentations
My presentations and posters from conferences and meetups are provided below as PDF documents.
My journal articles, conference papers, and other technical articles are listed below. If you do not have access to a publication, please contact me and I will be genuinely delighted to send you a copy of the manuscript. Publications are also listed on my ORCID profile.
