Talks
My conference, meetup, and tech related presentations and posters are listed below. They can be viewed as interactive reveal.js slides or plain old PDF files.
“Agents, agents, every where, Nor any drop to drink”, Tech Talk presented at Oak Ridge National Lab on September 2, 2026. View
“Python Programming with uv”, Hackers Cafe presentation at Oak Ridge National Lab on August 5, 2025. PDF
“Best practices for documenting a scientific Python project”, presented at US-RSE conference in Chicago, IL on October 16, 2023. PDF
“GPU Programming with Metal”, poster at ORNL Software Expo in Oak Ridge, TN on September 25, 2023. PDF
“Disadvantages of Julia”, presented at Julia for ORNL Science Workshop in Oak Ridge, TN on July 18, 2022. PDF
“An open-source one-dimensional model for bubbling fluidized bed reactors”, Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science presented online on August 3, 2021. PDF
“Using Lists in Python”, KnoxPy online meetup in Knoxville, TN on October 1, 2020. View
“Getting Started with Python”, KnoxPy online meetup in Knoxville, TN on September 10, 2020. PDF
“String formatting in Python”, KnoxPy meetup in Knoxville, TN on May 14, 2020.
“Reduced-Order Modeling Techniques for Fluidized-Bed Biomass Pyrolysis”, TC Biomass conference in Rosemont, IL on October 7, 2019. PDF
“Python workshop”, given at KnoxPy meeting in Knoxville, TN on September 5, 2019. PDF
“A Pythonic Equivalent Circuit Model for Battery Research”, presented at SciPy 2019 conference in Austin, TX on July 10, 2019. PDF
“Using Python to Model Biomass Pyrolysis Reactors”, presented at SciPy 2019 conference in Austin, TX on July 10, 2019. PDF
“Unit Conversion in Swift”, presentation at Knoxville CocoaHeads meetup in Knoxville, TN on April 29, 2019. PDF
“Combining high and low-order computational models to simulate biomass fast pyrolysis reactors”, AIChE Spring Meeting and 8th World Congress on Particle Technology in Orlando, FL on April 23, 2018. PDF
“Scraping with Selenium”, presented at KnoxPy meeting in Knoxville, TN on April 5, 2018. PDF
“Realm Mobile Database”, presentation for Knoxville CocoaHeads meetup in Knoxville, TN on April 18, 2017. PDF
“Modeling the impact of biomass particle size distribution and shape on heating behavior during fast pyrolysis”, presented at TCS 2016 Symposium in Chapel Hill, NC on November 1, 2016. PDF
“Modeling the impact of biomass particle residence time on fast pyrolysis yield and composition”, presented at AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA on November 13, 2016. PDF
“Firebase for iOS”, presentation for Knoxville CocoaHeads meetup in Knoxville, TN on August 16, 2016. PDF
“NSUserDefaults in Swift”, presented at Knoxville CocoaHeads meetup in Knoxville, TN on April 19, 2016. PDF
“Overview of NumPy in Python”, presentation for KnoxPy meetup in Knoxville, TN on April 7, 2016. PDF
“An Introduction to Git and GitHub”, presentation at Knoxville CocoaHeads meetup in Knoxville, TN on October 20, 2015. PDF
“Modeling Thermochemical Biomass Pyrolysis in Python”, presented at PyKnoxville meetup in Knoxville, TN on April 8, 2015. PDF
“Low-order modeling of biomass particle mixing and reaction in a bubbling-bed fast pyrolysis reactor”, presentation at AIChE 2014 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on November 20, 2014. PDF
“Particle-scale computational modeling of woody biomass pyrolysis”, presented at TCS 2014 Symposium in Denver, CO on September 4, 2014. PDF