Rob is a Research Software Engineer and the Software Lead for the Wind Plant Technology Characterization Task. Rob designs, builds, and maintains software across a wide variety of wind energy research areas, including wake modeling, operational analysis, and technoeconomic analysis. Rob’s focus is on the adoption of software best practices and a documentation driven software development paradigm. This work enables researchers and software contributors of all skill levels to be able to understand a given model, its components, functionality, and significance, allowing for broader adoption and easier maintenance and modification, which in turn increases the impact of research software.

Research Interests

Sustainable software development

Software best practices

Reproducible science

Education

M.S., Data Science, New York University

B.S., Mathematics, St. Michael’s College

Professional Experience

Data Scientist, NYU Langone Health Comprehensive Program on Obesity (2017–2019)

Senior Analyst, Risk Management Solutions (2014–2017)

Featured Work

Open-Source Software:

FLORIS

OpenOA

WOMBAT