Peter Sun
Dr. Peter Sun is a Physical Chemistry Postdoc in the John Marohn Group at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing simulation and reconstruction of 3D images and fabricating nanoscale detection devices for magnetic resonance force microscopy experiments.
Sessions
We present mrfmsim, an open-source framework that facilitates the design, simulation, and signal validation of magnetic resonance force microscopy experiments. The mrfmsim framework uses directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to model experiments and employs a plugin system that adds custom experiments and functionalities. Differing from common DAG-powered workflow packages, mrfmsim allows flexible customizations of experiments post-definition without rewriting the internal model, such as optimized looping. In the talk, we present the challenges in building simulation packages for experiments undergoing continuous development in a graduate research setting. We discuss the current one-off approach that led to error-prone code and how modularity, extendibility, and readability can speed up the development cycle.