Open Source Projects and Competitions

• Simplicial Homology Global Optimization (2016-present)
  • A new global optimization algorithm specialized in solving, efficient local minima mapping and characterization of black and grey box objective functions by utilizing techniques from integral homology theory.
  • Project website: https://stefan-endres.github.io/shgo/
  • Written for the SciPy project (2015)
• Hyperct (2017-present)
  • Library for low memory mesh grids, hypercube triangulations and sub-triangulations.
  • Project website: https://github.com/Stefan-Endres/hyperct
• Topographical global optimization (2016)
  • An open source Python implementation of the iterative topographical global optimization method.
  • Project website: https://github.com/Stefan-Endres/tgo
• Sci-X (team member), SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition Finalist (2015-2016)
  • Designed the full thermodynamic cycles which powered the air bearings by compressing vacuum air and performed FEM heat transfer analysis of the hyperloop pod using ANSYS.
• DWPM thermodynamic software (2014-2015)
  • Phase separation calculation algorithms primarily using the DWPM mixture rule.
  • Project website: https://github.com/Stefan-Endres/DWPM-Mixture-Model