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Affiliations#

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Computational Scientist / Group Leader, NSLS-II

Nov 2017 – present

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University

Postdoctoral Associate (Oganov lab, Dept. of Geosciences)

Oct 2013 – Dec 2015

South Ural State University

South Ural State University

Researcher, Dept. of General and Theoretical Physics

Oct 2008 – Sep 2013

Applied Technologies (Rocket Software partner)

Applied Technologies (Rocket Software partner)

QA Engineer / System Programmer

Jun 2007 – Oct 2013

South Ural State University

South Ural State University

System Administrator, Dept. of General and Theoretical Physics

2006 – 2007


Software Projects#

Bluesky Ecosystem

Bluesky Ecosystem

Architecture overview of the Bluesky experiment orchestration ecosystem: run engine, ophyd device layer, databroker, and associated tools developed at NSLS-II. See blueskyproject.io and Allan et al., Synchrotron Radiat. News 32, 19 (2019).

Nov 2017 – present

Autonomous Beamline Alignment (BLOP)

Autonomous Beamline Alignment (BLOP)

Four beam configurations on the NSLS-II TES (8-BM) beamline: upper-left shows the initial beam; lower-right shows the optimal alignment. Six degrees of freedom (KB mirror translations/rotations and toroidal mirror pitch/translation) are tuned to maximize flux density. From Morris et al., J. Synchrotron Rad. 31, 1446 (2024).

2020 – present

Sirepo

Sirepo

Sirepo — a cloud-based web interface for X-ray source and optics simulations powered by SRW, developed at RadiaSoft / NSLS-II. Enables browser-based setup, execution, and visualization of synchrotron beamline simulations. See Rakitin et al., J. Synchrotron Rad. 25, 1877 (2018).

Dec 2015 – present

TkInter GUI for SRW

TkInter GUI for SRW

Prototype desktop GUI for Synchrotron Radiation Workshop (SRW), developed as a job-interview demo at BNL.

Jul 2015

Stokes Random-Cell Generator API

Stokes Random-Cell Generator API

Simplified REST API for on-the-fly generation of random crystal cells, part of USPEX online utilities at Stony Brook University.

Jun 2015

TEP Automated Testing System (TATS)

TEP Automated Testing System (TATS)

End-to-end automated testing framework for the TEP mainframe emulator product at Applied Technologies / Rocket Software.

Aug 2011 – Oct 2013

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