Sevy Harris
PHD Student at Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSevy Harris is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University with eight years of professional experience bridging electrical engineering and chemical kinetics. They apply rigorous modeling and software skills to develop detailed kinetic mechanisms for catalyst-driven, eco-friendly energy applications, and contribute to the popular open-source Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG-Py) as a backend developer and QA engineer. Prior roles at Microsoft on HoloLens depth camera characterization and earlier electrical engineering work give them strong experimental and hardware-aware instincts that inform their modeling. Sevy holds degrees from Ohio State and Stanford and completed a master’s in chemical engineering at Northeastern, reflecting a multidisciplinary trajectory from hardware to chemical modeling. Notably, they’ve improved adsorption thermochemistry handling and expanded test coverage in RMG-Py, demonstrating attention to both scientific accuracy and software robustness.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Chemical Engineering, Master's degree, Chemical Engineering at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (4)
kinetics10
chemistry10
thermodynamics10
python10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ReactionMechanismGenerator/RMG-Py
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Python version of the amazing Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG).
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:48 reviews, 65 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sevy focused on improving the robustness and functionality of the RMG-Py software, which involves chemical kinetics and thermodynamics calculations. They implemented new naming conventions for adsorbed species and fixed a bug related to bidentate adsorption thermo calculations. Furthermore, the user added several unit tests to verify the correctness of the adsorption thermo generation for a wider array of chemical species. They also updated file paths for libraries and fixed minor typos in documentation and code.
mechanismchemical-engineeringchemistrypythonreaction
sevyharris/rmg_tools
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
A collection of scripts and Jupyter Notebooks to assist with RMG development
Contributions:6 PRs, 102 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
pythonjupyter-notebooknotebookassistnotebooks
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