Emily Kahl
Supercomputing Applications Specialist
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolEmily Kahl is a Supercomputing Applications Specialist and computational physicist with nine years of experience applying high-performance computing to molecular and atomic science. Based in Queensland, Australia, she combines a PhD in Physics (UNSW) and first-class honours in computational science with hands-on research-software engineering, notably contributing Kokkos and hipFFT performance improvements to the widely used LAMMPS molecular dynamics code. At Pawsey and previously AIBN she has bridged domain science and HPC, shipping optimized kernels and debugging complex parallel routines that accelerate triclinic cell and thermostat computations. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic, reproducible HPC workflows and for translating theoretical models into production-ready simulation code.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and computational science, Hons. Class I, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and computational science, Hons. Class I at The University of QueenslandUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (8)
c-language10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
cprogramming-language10
molecular-simulation10
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dynamics10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lammps/lammps
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the LAMMPS MD software package by implementing and refactoring Kokkos-enabled routines, focusing on performance improvements for triclinic cell calculations and the SLLOD thermostat. They fixed bugs in existing Kokkos kernels and added new Kokkos implementations for compute temp/deform. Further contributions include the addition of hipFFT support and documentation updates.
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationkokkos
CTCMS-UQ/QC
Jan 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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