Enoch Dames
Lead R&D Engineer at Monolith Materials
San Leandro, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEnoch Dames is a Lead R&D Engineer with 12 years of interdisciplinary experience in thermal science, combustion and pyrolysis of conventional, natural gas, and biofuels, currently managing international plasma-based carbon materials and hydrogen programs from San Leandro. He combines deep computational modeling and experimental expertise—spanning reaction mechanism generation, process modeling, and particle formation—with hands-on project leadership at Monolith Materials. His academic pedigree includes a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and postdoctoral work at MIT, Stanford, and Princeton where he developed combustion chemistry tools and novel reformer concepts. An active contributor to the Reaction Mechanism Generator open-source project, he has improved CanTherm functionality and documentation, bridging domain science with usable software. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication, uncertainty-quantified experimental design, and translating quantum-chemical insights into scalable process engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBS, Engineering Mechanics, BS, Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech
Chinese
Github Skills (6)
kinetics10
chemistry10
computational-chemistry10
python10
documentation10
thermodynamics9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ReactionMechanismGenerator/RMG-Py
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Python version of the amazing Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG).
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Backend Developer
Technical Writer & Backend DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Enoch primarily contributed to the documentation of the RMG-Py project, adding and expanding documentation on installation, running jobs, and output analysis. They also made code changes to address specific issues within the project, such as fixing example input files for the CanTherm module, modifying the symmetry calculations, and implementing a function related to molecular degrees of freedom in the conformer class. Furthermore, the user introduced the ability for the CanTherm module to read in QChem output files and added examples, demonstrating their understanding of the underlying scientific domain and the code's functionality.
mechanismchemical-engineeringchemistrypythonreaction
enochd/RMG-Py
Jul 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 13 pushes, 1 comment in 11 months
mechanismpythonreactionrmgpython-version
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