Shane Keniley
Plasma Modeling Engineer at Lam Research
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolShane Keniley is a Plasma Modeling Engineer at Lam Research with eight years of experience blending advanced simulation, plasma chemistry, and open-source software development. He earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering from UIUC, where his research produced tools such as the CRANE plasma chemistry package and a multispecies continuum Boltzmann solver for high-density plasmas. Shane focuses on plasma-material interactions, sputtering and recycling of impurities, and practical coupling of surface physics to continuum models—skills he applies to semiconductor-scale plasma challenges. Based in Portland, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and production-oriented engineering, routinely translating complex reaction networks into reusable, MOOSE-based software. Colleagues describe him as a solver who values both code quality and physical fidelity, frequently pushing open-source designs that accelerate research-to-product workflows.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (18)
reaction10
moose10
temperature10
dedicated9
simulation9
plasma-physics9
materials-informatics9
moose-framework9
chemistry9
computational-science8
application-framework7
multiphysics7
amr6
parallel6
python5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
keniley1/zapdos
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
Open source Moose app for simulating low-temperature plasmas
Contributions:14 PRs, 35 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 3 months
moosesimulationtemperature
keniley1/crane
Sep 2018 - Aug 2021
A MOOSE application dedicated to general chemical reaction networks.
Contributions:2 PRs, 100 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years 10 months
reactionchemicaldedicatedmoosechemical-reaction-networks
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