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Emily Bourne

Worked on the gyselax/gyselalibxx scientific computing library, delivering high-performance simulation features and robust numerical methods over 20 months. Developed and optimized core components for geometry handling, advection schemes, and Poisson solvers, emphasizing GPU acceleration and modular C++ design. Enhanced the codebase with advanced template metaprogramming, CI/CD automation, and rigorous testing, while modernizing build systems using CMake and Docker. Improved maintainability through systematic refactoring, documentation updates, and static analysis. Integrated MPI and Kokkos for scalable parallel computing, and introduced flexible interpolation frameworks. The work prioritized reliability, scalability, and developer productivity, supporting complex physics simulations and streamlined onboarding for contributors.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

73%Features

Repository Contributions

344Total
Bugs
63
Commits
344
Features
171
Lines of code
216,555
Activity Months20

Work History

May 2026

4 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2026

May 2026 performance summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx: Delivered reliability improvements, API flexibility, and GPU safety fixes with targeted documentation and CI updates. Key work includes CI/test reliability enhancements by reactivating clang-18 tests, expanding mathematical/tooling docs, introducing data-type parametrization for interpolation rules, and enforcing host-vs-device call safety in the GPU toolchain. These efforts reduce maintenance costs, improve developer throughput, and enhance robustness for downstream users relying on precise math tooling and CUDA-related workflows.

April 2026

11 Commits • 5 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026 monthly summary for gyselalibxx: Delivered scalable, high-value improvements across ND interpolation, Poisson-like solvers, and memory efficiency. Key outcomes include a generalized ND interpolation framework with periodicity support, the NDIdentityInterpolationBuilder for improved memory usage and speed, and a flexible Poisson-like solver interface with ND tensor support enabling configurable solver configurations. A critical compile-time fix was completed for PolarSplineFEMPoissonLikeSolver, and multiple memory/performance optimizations were applied to BslAdvection1D and axisymmetric geometry workstreams. These changes collectively reduce memory footprints, improve evaluation speed, and broaden the applicability of high-dimensional interpolation and solver configurations for scientific workflows.

March 2026

24 Commits • 17 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 performance summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx: Delivered architectural cleanup, performance improvements, and expanded capabilities across the 1D advection and Poisson solver stack. Key outcomes include the interpolator system cleanup and refactor, enabling simpler advection construction; mixed-precision support for 1D advection operators; memory footprint reductions in FEM1DPoissonSolver; GPU-enabled porting of PolarSplineFEMPoissonLikeAssembler; and added reliability checks in quadrature. Routine bug fixes and maintenance tasks were completed, including fixes for non-uniform periodic interpolation point selection and compilation issues in polarpoissonlikeassembler.hpp, along with ongoing release housekeeping. These changes improve runtime performance, scalability on large meshes, developer ergonomics, and overall reliability. Technologies demonstrated include C++, GPU acceleration, memory optimization, mixed-precision arithmetic, boundary-condition handling, and test-driven validation.

February 2026

14 Commits • 7 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx focused on delivering core numerical capabilities, API consistency, and CI reliability. The month delivered several major feature implementations, bug fixes enhancing stability and validation, and performance/maintainability improvements that collectively raise the library’s testability, accuracy of advection calculations, and deployment confidence.

January 2026

6 Commits • 3 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 (Month: 2026-01) monthly summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx focusing on business value and technical impact. The month delivered reliability improvements, modernization, and new capabilities across the repository. Key outcomes include CI/CD reliability enhancements, modernization of interfaces with C++20 concepts, a new tensor operation to support element-level assignments, and targeted build/config fixes that reduce failure modes and warnings. The efforts lowered pipeline flakiness, improved code quality and maintainability, and expanded functional capabilities for tensor handling and subproject integration.

December 2025

14 Commits • 3 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 monthly summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx: Delivered major spline system enhancements and geometry modularization, enabling higher-order derivatives and improved testability; implemented GPU-accelerated numerical kernels with broader precision controls; and strengthened release/test processes. These changes drive higher simulation fidelity, faster compute, and easier geometry reuse, while maintaining code quality and forward-compatibility.

November 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 monthly summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx: Implemented configurability and code cleanliness improvements across Landau/Bump on Tail simulations with a common equilibrium interface and YAML-driven selection, enabling a single executable to run both simulations. Upgraded dependencies and safety measures addressing critical issues: updated DDC to v0.9.0 to resolve issue #362 and adjusted tests for coordinate handling; added static assertions to enforce Builder/Evaluator compatibility to prevent runtime errors. Significantly reduced code duplication between Landau and Bump On Tail, improving maintainability, test coverage, and configurability. Demonstrated competencies in CMake, Dockerfile maintenance, YAML integration, and type-safe design, delivering measurable business value through reduced runtimes, easier experimentation, and fewer runtime failures.

October 2025

13 Commits • 3 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025: Focused on stabilizing and accelerating development across gyselalibxx by delivering tooling improvements, API extensions, safety fixes, and documentation enhancements. Key outcomes include a hardened CI/build environment, GPU safety checks to prevent undefined behavior, new DerivField index-range getters, runtime domain assertions for PolarSplines, and clearer, more consistent API/docs. The changes reduce CI flakiness, prevent critical runtime crashes, shorten onboarding, and improve API usability for downstream projects.

September 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

Sep 1, 2025

In September 2025, the gyselax/gyselalibxx project delivered notable documentation and release improvements, focusing on reliability, traceability, and open science compliance. Key outcomes include stabilizing the documentation build, preparing the 0.3.0 release, and enhancing citation visibility. These work items reduce support overhead, improve developer and user trust, and position the project for ongoing growth.

August 2025

13 Commits • 3 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 performance and reliability upgrade for gyselax/gyselalibxx. Delivered major component modernization, GPU acceleration, reliability enhancements, and comprehensive profiling/documentation improvements. These efforts improve maintainability, scalability, and runtime performance while reducing build and runtime risk.

July 2025

19 Commits • 3 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 performance summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx. Focused on delivering high-value features, stabilizing numerical correctness, and improving developer experience. Key work spanned GPU-accelerated PolarSpline computations, enhanced documentation and release notes, API cleanup, and targeted robustness fixes across derivatives, tensor handling, and math utilities. The combined work delivered performance gains, easier debugging, clearer API boundaries, and stronger numerical reliability aligned with product goals.

June 2025

5 Commits • 3 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly performance-focused summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx. Focused on delivering high-impact features, improving numerical accuracy, enabling more efficient GPU-enabled workflows, and tightening test terminology to reduce confusion across the CI suite. The month highlighted cross-cutting improvements in coordinate mappings, solver interfaces, and hardware utilization, driving downstream business value in simulation accuracy, throughput, and maintainability.

May 2025

30 Commits • 17 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx. This period focused on delivering core physics capabilities, modernizing the codebase, and strengthening CI/CD and documentation to accelerate production-readiness. Key outcomes include new operators, enhanced tensor/space handling, cross-compiler support, and stability improvements that drive business value by enabling more accurate simulations and faster release cycles.

April 2025

21 Commits • 15 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 focused on performance, reliability, and geometry expansion in gyselalibxx. Key outcomes include batching the polar spline foot finder, storing the advection field in Vector, CI improvements via splitting CPU/GPU workflows, expanding polar advection to multiple geometries, and introducing coverage monitoring. Notable bug fixes included regex validation for library names and Cartesian-to-Circular equations corrections. These changes speed up throughput, reduce maintenance burden, and broaden the library's applicability, with improved test visibility and faster feedback cycles.

March 2025

34 Commits • 18 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary for the gyselalibxx development effort. The team delivered a broad modernization of the Tensor/ND ecosystem, expanded MPI/GPU capabilities, and strengthened CI/documentation, all while improving reliability and code quality. The following highlights emphasize business value, performance, and technical leadership.

February 2025

18 Commits • 5 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025: Delivered GPU-accelerated geometry workflows and foundational tensor/vector type enhancements in gyselalibxx, with targeted tests and CI improvements. Key features include porting core geometry components to GPU (Foot Finders and related interpolators), introducing a new tensor/vector type system and integrating it into the solver, and stabilizing interpolation point initialization to reduce rounding errors. Major CI/CD improvements added GPU testing workflow, a GitLab mirror, environment fixes, and explicit formatting standards, resulting in more reliable builds. Fixed critical build issues in VectorFields and norm_inf, and updated repository clone guidance for clearer onboarding. These efforts reduce runtime costs, improve numerical stability, and accelerate development feedback cycles, strengthening performance and maintainability.

January 2025

35 Commits • 17 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025: Key features delivered include Getting started documentation, host-prefix support in R-theta geometry with FieldRTheta default device, and extensive repo reorganization (move matrix functions to src/, relocate Gauss-Legendre to src/quadrature, polar splines relocation, and code cleanup such as removing the SLL folder and advection domain). Major bugs fixed include public_mirror reliability improvements and CI workflow fixes, plus documentation corrections. Overall impact: improved onboarding and developer experience, GPU-accelerated Poisson R-theta weak integrals boosting compute performance, and a more maintainable, reliable codebase. Technologies/skills demonstrated: GPU acceleration, modularization and refactoring, CMake/CI reliability, documentation discipline, and naming-convention standardization.

December 2024

40 Commits • 25 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024/monthly summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx. Focus areas: CI automation, mapping enhancements, vector/mapping generalization, and integration of code branches culminating in improved stability, testability, and performance for geometry and simulation workflows. Key features delivered: - Set up GitHub CI for pull requests to enable automatic CI checks and faster feedback on PRs (commit 068e04afd8969c9400ccd3c3422a952cd7df2731). - Mappings: added is_curvilinear_2d_mapping_v check and inverse mapping helpers to improve validation and reliability (commits 0499ae21a7b00ad3d9cb99b4f4a55c94e49fdbc0 and f085958ebef89feac27268956eb9b9fdd1e296cf). - Integrate kokkos profiling regions for polar Poisson simulations to aid performance profiling and optimization (d11f1b1d0926b89bfe5337999cb1b69cfa7acb73). - Generalise VectorMapper class to broaden reuse and reduce code duplication (42a4dba38131d4bcc4c7853e42ed669fbf1595f7). - Merge/Integrate important branches into main: ebourne_vector_mapping (25bc61a0940a32eca6b327a0cd9df1f25e72f743) and ebourne_has_singular_o_point_inv_jacobian (c336e77c9ac0c116616a2ac57d4ef14be5eeaac4); introduction of has_singular_o_point_inv_jacobian_v for singular O-point inverse Jacobian checks (b258d8f47c13dcbba24d3230ec975decb9c4bc2f). - Default to Greville points for geometryXVx simulations (b7cc19977ec04e390f47ba31a91399d9dfbba7c0). Major bugs fixed: - Public mirror: ensure backticks in commit messages are handled correctly (44fe00435d04a1858de6f32091de568283a4bac3). - Remove template argument added in an earlier commit to fix build issues (!779) (1dd3963dabea42d332f5c7e94a6a631ef376a9da). - Various stability/fix commits related to documentation tests, GitHub workflow robustness, and convergence logging (e2303a2082a662062559a4e73e8259640f6e5bf5; eff51012f516c9c3390145c1f85b351996611b60; 4debd886e16cf5fcbaf41aa6dc39fe40d8853f96). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved release quality and developer productivity through automated PR validation and broader, reusable components. - Strengthened numerical mapping infrastructure and geometry handling, enabling more robust simulations and easier extension. - Streamlined integration of experimental branches, accelerating delivery of performance and reliability improvements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - CI/CD (GitHub Actions), codebase integration, C++ class design and inheritance refactoring, mapping frameworks, performance profiling with Kokkos, static analysis tooling, and robust testing.

November 2024

25 Commits • 17 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Monthly summary for 2024-11 focused on gyselax/gyselalibxx workstream. Delivered substantial enhancements to numerical integration, improved performance visibility, and extended API surface for multipatch workflows, while driving stability through targeted bug fixes and code hygiene. All work reinforces the product's accuracy, scalability, and developer productivity. Key deliverables and outcomes: - Numerical integration enhancements: Implemented Simpson quadrature with trapezoidal extension, fixed trapezoid coefficients, and added support for user-defined uniform points, enabling more flexible, accurate quadrature for users. (Commit references: f28ca44ac9b22b26d7ef1ca9fc589df96b814724; ea97cac1c647ce680022c4045c886b58eea8497b; f689d88656c6912d0997adddb61023e0b1cdb285) - Profiling and performance instrumentation: Introduced kokkos regions and cmake options to facilitate targeted profiling and performance analysis in complex simulations. (Commit: 7795a1f0e7c6c2f056675e0a0d6717abf6f22a6f) - Crank-Nicolson timestepper: Added Crank-Nicolson timestepper support for multipatch objects, improving stability and accuracy of time integration in multi-region simulations. (Commit: ded4c22c7706b7c8ad3a144feb34db0693c83d5f) - Collision geometry cleanup and validation: Added assertions on collision properties and removed invalid 5D geometry to ensure physics validity and avoid downstream errors. (Commit: 5519c3cee8e69a9459c4139f12baedf1b3e6ba9a) - MultipatchBuilder API extension: Extended template arguments with BcTransition to enable richer boundary condition coupling in multipatch workflows. (Commit: 4757c2fbd9763558b3fa56e20223eb5bffcdaad8) Major achievements reflect an emphasis on delivering business value through accurate numerical methods, measurable performance tooling, safer geometry handling, and enhanced API capabilities for complex simulations. Top 3-5 achievements: - Numerical integration enhancements (Simpson with trapezoidal extension; user-defined uniform points; corrected coefficients) - Profiling-ready build scaffolding (kokkos regions, cmake options) - Crank-Nicolson timestepper for multipatch objects - Collision geometry cleanup and validation (assertions; removal of 5D geometry) - MultipatchBuilder API extension (BcTransition in template args)

October 2024

12 Commits • 5 Features

Oct 1, 2024

Month 2024-10 performance summary for gyselax/gyselalibxx focusing on business value, robustness, and scalability across core computational components and the buildchain.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness91.0%
Maintainability89.2%
Architecture88.8%
Performance82.6%
AI Usage21.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashC++CMakeCMakeLists.txtDockerfileGitLicenseMarkdownNonePython

Technical Skills

Abstract Class ImplementationAdvection SchemesAdvection SimulationAlgorithm DesignAlgorithm OptimizationAssertionsAutomationB-SplinesBashBash ScriptingBug FixingBuild ConfigurationBuild SystemBuild System ConfigurationBuild System Management

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

gyselax/gyselalibxx

Oct 2024 May 2026
20 Months active

Languages Used

C++CMakeShellBashCMakeLists.txtMarkdownPythonYAML

Technical Skills

Build System ConfigurationBuild SystemsC++C++ DevelopmentCI/CDCMake