Chris Hansen
Associate Director, Columbia Fusion Research Center
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hansen is an applied physicist and computational plasma scientist with 13 years of experience advancing magnetic confinement fusion at Columbia and previously at the University of Washington. As Associate Director of the Columbia Fusion Research Center and PI on multiple DOE- and ARPA-E-funded projects, he builds validated engineering tools, reduced-order and machine-learned models tightly coupled to experiment to accelerate design of economical fusion devices. His technical strengths span unstructured meshes, compatible discretizations, mixed finite elements, and V&V for large-scale multiphysics codes, and he has scaled solvers for >10,000 processors. Beyond academia he contributes practical software improvements to widely used open-source tooling—e.g., enhancing FORTRAN parsing in the official doxygen repo—bridging legacy scientific code and modern documentation and modeling workflows.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aeronautics and Astronautics Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aeronautics and Astronautics Physics at University of Washington
Github Skills (11)
syntax-highlighter10
highlighting10
doxygen10
fortran10
highlighter10
lexical-analysis10
syntax-highlighting10
highlight10
namespaces9
management9
manage9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
doxygen/doxygen
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Official doxygen git repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to enhancing the FORTRAN code highlighting capabilities within the doxygen project. Their work involved adding support for new keywords, commands, and features from FORTRAN 2003 and later standards, specifically modifying the lexer file (`src/fortrancode.l`) to recognize and correctly highlight new syntax elements. The user also addressed highlighting bugs, improved the identification of code scopes, and converted FORTRAN modules to namespaces to improve code linking. These improvements enhance doxygen's ability to accurately parse and document FORTRAN codebases.
git-repositoryc-plus-pluscompiledoxygenswig
hansec/fortran-language-server
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Fortran Language Server for the Language Server Protocol
Contributions:60 releases, 373 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years
fortran-languagefortranserver-protocollsplanguage-server
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