Kyle Niemeyer
Associate School Head For Undergraduate Programs
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Niemeyer is an associate professor and academic leader with 14 years of experience bridging mechanical engineering research, undergraduate education, and science policy. Based in Corvallis, he directs combustion and thermochemistry research, contributes core back-end improvements to the widely used Cantera library, and leads the Niemeyer Research Group while serving as Associate School Head for Undergraduate Programs. He blends rigorous computational skill (GPU-accelerated CFD and thermodynamics tooling) with clear science communication—evident from technical writing for the Journal of Open Source Software and earlier science reporting for Ars Technica. A former AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, he brings practical policy insight to academic leadership and open-source stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
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Github Skills (23)
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Github contributions (5)
openjournals/joss
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
The Journal of Open Source Software
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 reviews, 31 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the documentation and informational content of the JOSS repository. Their commits focused on adding and modifying content related to the journal's guidelines, code of conduct, and submission requirements. They also added metadata for link previews and made typographic improvements to the scope language, enhancing the clarity and accessibility of information for authors, reviewers, and the broader community.
publishingopen-accessjournalscientific-softwarescientific-journals
Cantera/cantera
Jun 2015 - Jul 2022
Chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kyle's primary contribution focused on enhancing the thermodynamics features of the Cantera library, specifically adding functionalities to retrieve species thermo parameters. They implemented functions for obtaining these parameters, and also incorporated testing to validate these implementations. Furthermore, the user fixed a typo in the CTML writer and updated documentation regarding a conda package link. Additionally, they modified the default preconditioner threshold.
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