January 2026 monthly summary for DUNE/duneana: Key activity centered on improving documentation for the SimPhotonCounterDUNE_module, enabling users and developers to leverage added features and parameters with greater clarity. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: enhanced maintainability, faster onboarding for new contributors, and clearer usage guidance; demonstrated strong documentation discipline and version-controlled change tracing.

December 2025: Implemented the DUNE/duneana feature to update the default histogram output filename to marley_opflash_vd_hist.root, aligning with the updated analysis workflow and data processing requirements. This change ensures the correct output is generated for the analysis and improves reproducibility across the data pipeline. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: reduces the risk of misnamed outputs and enhances downstream processing reliability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: ROOT histogram handling, Git/version control, cross-repo collaboration, and validating data processing outputs against evolving analysis workflows.

November 2025 monthly summary for performance review: - Key focus: enhance photon counting and data-analysis workflows in DUNE duneana, and improve robustness of DUNE opdet data handling. - Achievements include implementing a new photon counting and analysis framework, adding FHiCL configuration support for FDVD data analysis, and hardening data-path resilience against incomplete SimChannels in OpDet workflows. - The work enabled richer photon-based light analysis pipelines, smoother FDVD data processing, and more stable production runs across the DUNE software stack. - Technologies demonstrated include C++ module development, FHiCL configuration management, nested exception handling, and data-structure design for photon trees.

For 2025-10, delivered automatic validation of the Photon Detection System (PDS) in DUNE via the duneana repository. Implemented new FCL files enabling automated data quality checks, enhanced analysis capabilities, and improved event reconstruction. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: higher data reliability, faster validation cycles, and stronger validation pipelines. Technologies demonstrated: FCL-based validation, DUNE software framework, version-controlled commits and traceability.

April 2025 performance summary for DUNE/duneopdet: - Delivered a modular refactor of the visibility model configuration with unified interfaces across SemiAnalytical, CompGraph, and PhotonLibrary, including a reorganization of FDVD settings under a single modular configuration to enable easier extension and maintenance. - Fixed demonstration reliability by removing the need for a dummy event input in FCLs, enabling example execution without placeholder data. - Improved correctness and validation of visibility calculations for the PhotonLibrary, accompanied by documentation updates to explain model configurations and validation logic.

November 2024 monthly summary for DUNE/duneopdet highlighting delivered configurability improvements and corrected visibility map algorithms. Implemented PhotonVisibilityExport sampling density configurability and per-voxel control, and fixed detector-specific configuration sourcing for light-map visibility analysis.