Andrew Ning
Professor at Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Ning is a professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University with 13 years of experience bridging aerodynamics, optimization, and deep learning for aircraft design and wind energy. He combines a Stanford PhD and academic leadership with hands-on engineering from roles at NREL and NASA, translating research into practical tools and industry collaborations. His work spans theory and software—evident in contributions like the SortPhotos Python utility where he extended metadata handling and cross-platform support—showing a pragmatic coder’s approach to research problems. Based in Provo, Utah, he maintains a joint appointment with NREL, focusing on optimization-driven design methods that accelerate renewable energy and aerospace innovation.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at Brigham Young UniversityViewmont High SchoolPhD, PhD at Stanford University
Japanese
Github Skills (8)
file-management10
python10
metadata8
extraction8
command-line-arguments8
information-extraction8
metadata-extractor8
argument-parsing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
andrewning/sortphotos
Mar 2013 - Dec 2020
SortPhotos is a Python script that organizes photos and videos into folders using date/time information
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 24 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `sortphotos` Python script, which organizes photos and videos. They added functionality by adding more file types to sort. Other contributions include adding and fixing code for linux systems. They also updated the version of an external `exif-py` library for extracting image metadata.
date-timepythonvideospython-scriptpython3
byuflowlab/Snopt.jl
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
Julia interface to SNOPT (must obtain a licensed copy of SNOPT separately)
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 39 commits in 5 years 8 months
licensedentropyjulia-interfacejulialangmixed-models
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