Alexander Lindsay
Grad Student Researcher at North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Lindsay is a Grad Student Researcher and postdoc based in Raleigh with 11 years of experience bridging chemical engineering and computational science. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Washington and is pursuing advanced research toward a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering with goals in research and teaching. A specialist in finite element methods and numerical solvers, he leads work on the MOOSE framework and contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as OpenMC, PETSc, yt, and libMesh. His contributions span backend algorithm development, solver robustness, and mesh-aware visualization—often improving performance, testability, and API usability. Beyond code, he brings three years of hands-on chemistry research and a background in tutoring and coaching, reflecting a strong aptitude for explaining complex STEM topics. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, performance-minded engineering that connects rigorous math and physics to production-grade scientific software.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering 8/2010, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering 8/2010 at University of WashingtonNorth Carolina State University
Github Skills (37)
algorithm10
data-visualizations10
simulation10
algorithms10
c-language10
python10
apidoc10
openmc10
simulations10
fortran10
data-visualisation10
capi10
c1110
implement10
petsc10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
idaholab/moose
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Algorithm Specialist
Back-end Developer & Algorithm SpecialistContributions:4596 reviews, 2977 commits, 1386 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and algorithms of the "moose" repository. They implemented new interfaces, added a testing framework, and refined the numerical solver aspects of the project. The user also introduced significant changes related to code readability and performance improvements by swapping loop orders. Their efforts were focused on optimizing the performance of existing numerical methods.
pythonfinite-element-analysisfemparallelmultiphysics
libMesh/libmesh
May 2017 - Nov 2022
libMesh github repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 reviews, 357 commits, 350 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily worked on the `contrib/fparser` component of the `libmesh/libmesh` repository, adding and modifying functionality related to the `fparser_ad` module. Their contributions involved implementing and specializing the `erf` function for complex numbers, and also correcting errors in the derivative calculations. The user also added example test files to evaluate the implemented functionality, and improved the use of the Faddeeva function.
golangfinite-element-analysisfemparallelfinite-element-methods
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