Casey Icenhour
Computational Scientist
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolCasey Icenhour is a computational scientist with over a decade of experience developing and maintaining open-source multiphysics finite-element software, currently leading the MOOSE electromagnetics module at Idaho National Laboratory. His work spans computational electromagnetics, plasma physics, fusion energy, and advanced manufacturing, combining research-driven modeling with production-grade software engineering to NQA-1 standards. He has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering and a strong electrical engineering foundation (BSEE, 4.0), which informs both his physics insight and code-level implementations. On GitHub he contributes backend features and test automation to the widely used idaholab/moose framework, notably adding curl vector function support and robust test coverage for electromagnetics. Colleagues rely on him to bridge rigorous scientific modeling with reproducible, dependency-managed builds (including conda packaging) for long-lived research codes. He brings a pragmatic rigor—researcher’s depth married to software quality practices—that accelerates fusion and electromagnetics simulation capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
PhD, Nuclear Engineering, PhD, Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBSEE, Electrical Engineering, 4.0, BSEE, Electrical Engineering, 4.0 at Western Carolina University
Github Skills (6)
finite-element-analysis10
c-language10
f10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
el9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
idaholab/moose
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:966 reviews, 663 commits, 373 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Casey's commits focused on enhancing the `idaholab/moose` repository, specifically targeting the electromagnetics module. Their primary contributions involved implementing the functionality for the new "curl" vector functions by modifying and integrating them into several source code files, including MooseParsedVectorFunction and Function classes. Furthermore, they added test cases for these features, with new test files and a corresponding boundary condition, while also correcting for missing header files.
pythonfinite-element-analysisfemparallelmultiphysics
cticenhour/malamute
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Advanced manufacturing modeling and simulation
Contributions:84 pushes, 33 branches in 2 years 1 month
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