Christopher Havlin
Visiting Research Scientist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Havlin is a visiting research scientist and software-savvy geophysicist with nine years of experience building numerical models, scientific software, and data visualization pipelines for Earth science. He combines a PhD in Geological Sciences with hands-on programming in Fortran, MATLAB and Python to automate large-scale analyses (over 10 GB) and run thousands of numerical experiments probing subsurface magma and tectonic processes. As an active open-source contributor to the widely used yt project, he has improved volume rendering, interactive zooming, and scene-saving behaviorâbringing research-grade visualization into broader use. He has led multi-institution research teams, written tutorials and documentation to onboard new users, and translated complex results to diverse audiences through invited talks and public outreach. Based in Missouri, he blends deep domain expertise with pragmatic software engineering to turn geophysical theory and noisy data into reproducible, visual insights.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological Sciences at Brown UniversityBachelorâs Degree, Geophysics and Planetary Science, Bachelorâs Degree, Geophysics and Planetary Science at Boston University
English
Github Skills (5)
volume-rendering10
scientific-visualization10
python10
documentation8
image-processing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:611 reviews, 251 commits, 132 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits primarily focused on the `yt` Python library, addressing docstring corrections for profile plotters and fixing volume rendering issues. They implemented zoom functionality within the interactive volume rendering loop, demonstrating work on the volume rendering visualization features. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the scene saving mechanism in volume rendering by adding options to control rendering behavior.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
chrishavlin/analysis_schema
Mar 2021 - Nov 2024
Experimental declarative analysis schema for yt
Contributions:45 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 9 months
pythondeclarative
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