Jérémie Knüsel
Professor at Berner Fachhochschule BFH
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJérémie Knüsel is a professor and former R&D engineer with 13 years of experience bridging academia and industry in Switzerland, grounded in a PhD in biorobotics from EPFL. He combines teaching and research at Bern University of Applied Sciences with hands-on software engineering, contributing backend improvements to high-performance projects like JeroMQ and to core tooling in the Julia ecosystem. His work spans distributed messaging, HiDPI-aware rendering for document viewers, and REPL/LaTeX developer ergonomics—evidence of a pragmatist who improves robustness, testing, and developer experience. Based in Lausanne, he brings a mix of systems-level thinking and practical refactoring skills, and has an educator’s eye for clear documentation and examples.
13 years of coding experience
PhD, Biorobotics, PhD, Biorobotics at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMaster of Advanced Studies, Master of Advanced Studies at Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud (HEP Vaud)
Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
rep10
programming-language10
zeromq10
messaging10
document-viewer10
c1110
jeromq10
cairo10
java10
c1710
javas10
gtk10
latex10
language-design10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
pwmt/zathura
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Document viewer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jérémie primarily contributed to the implementation of HiDPI support within the document viewer. This involved modifying the document structure to include device scale factors and updating the rendering process to account for these factors, ensuring correct display on high-resolution screens. They also addressed thumbnail scaling issues and refactored device factor handling. Furthermore, the user updated the project by bumping GTK+ to version 3.22, and improved the handling of zoom functionality.
document-viewerviewerdmsgtk3
JuliaLang/julia
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 12 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jérémie contributed to the Julia programming language, focusing on improving the REPL and LaTeX completions. They fixed issues related to LaTeX completion of Greek variants, added new symbols, and addressed incorrect completion behavior. The user also updated the documentation for tuples and named tuples, providing clearer examples and explanations. Further, the user made adjustments to the `splat` function, clarifying its purpose and recommending its use for constructing `Base.Splat` objects.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
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