About me

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University, working on computational modeling of fluid flows and on making research software better.

Short bio#

Kyle E. Niemeyer is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering. He also serves as the Associate School Head for Academic Affairs, managing the administration of existing and development of undergraduate and graduate academic programs in the School. He leads the Niemeyer Research Group, which uses computational modeling to study various phenomena involving fluid flows, including combustion and chemical kinetics, and related topics like numerical methods and parallel computing. He is also a strong advocate of open access, open source software, and open science in general, and has contributed in the area of standardizing research software citation.

Kyle's peer-reviewed publications span the combustion, energy, and computational physics communities, and he has received multiple prestigious fellowships throughout his career, including the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship in 2022, the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship in 2019, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2010, and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship in 2009.

Kyle received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2014, working with Professor Jackie Sung in the Combustion Diagnostics Laboratory (now at the University of Connecticut). He received BS and MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

He also serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Source Software.

Academic lineage#

My full academic lineage can be found at my Mathematics Genealogy Project profile, but briefly, I was advised by:

• Jackie Sung (Ph.D., Princeton University), who was advised by
• Chung K. Law (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego), who was advised by
• Forman A. Williams (Ph.D., Caltech), who had Richard Feynman on his dissertation committee and was advised by
• Stanford S. (Sol) Penner (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), who was advised by
• Farrington Daniels (Ph.D., Harvard) and Theodore von Kármán (Dr. phil., University of Göttingen), the latter of whom was advised by
• Ludwig Prandtl.

As an undergraduate, I was also advised by

• Joseph Prahl (Ph.D., Harvard University), and
• Christopher Hernandez (Ph.D., Stanford University).

Beyond the university#

Outside the university I collect books and build things out of wood; there are pictures and notes under making. I also take on consulting work in a personal capacity.