Isaac Wheeler

Isaac Wheeler

Chemical engineer, Julia enthusiast

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opensource

Unit-aware plotting

September 2025

Series of contributions to improve unit-aware plotting with Plots.jl, Unitful.jl, and Latexify.jl

LyoPronto.jl

October 2025

Julia package for lyophilization simulation & parameter fitting

LyoPRONTO maintainer

December 2025

Ongoing maintenace of Python package for lyophilization simulation and process optimization

publications

Ambient Cooling of a Bowl of Soup

Published in Journal of Applied Engineering Mathematics, 2020

This was the final project for a masters-level class during my undergraduate, applying a neat integral transform method to solving second-order PDEs.

Recommended citation: Isaac Wheeler and Gabriel Meyer. " Ambient Cooling of a Bowl of Soup." Journal of Applied Engineering Mathematics, 2020
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Randomized-Field Microwave-Assisted Pharmaceutical Lyophilization with Closed-Loop Control

Published in Scientific Reports, 2025

Access paper here

Recommended citation: Alina Alexeenko, Ahmad Darwish, Drew Strongrich, Petr Kazarin, Chanakya Patil, Cole Tower, Isaac Wheeler, Eric Munson, Qi Zhou, Vivek Narsimhan, Kyu Yoon, Steven Nail, Anthony Cofer, Justin Stanbro, Harshil Renawala, Daniel Roth, Francis DeMarco, Justin Griffiths, Dimitrios Peroulis, "Randomized-Field Microwave-Assisted Pharmaceutical Lyophilization with Closed-Loop Control." Scientific Reports, 2025.
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talks

teaching

TA: ChEn 345, Materials and Reactions Lab

Undergraduate lab course, Brigham Young University, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2020

Handled most of student questions, with some supervision from professor and lab manager. Graded student submissions for lab reports.

TA: ChEn 385, Thermodynamics and Reactions Lab

Undergraduate lab course, Brigham Young University, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2021

Handled most of student questions, with some supervision from professor and lab manager. Graded student submissions for lab reports.

TA: ChE 377, Momentum Transfer

Undergraduate lecture with lab portion, Purdue University, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, 2022

My duties included:

  • Weekly office hours, answering homework questions (including a 30-person pseudolecture on tensors and Einstein notation)
  • Ran two lab sections, with minor logistical assistance from lab manager. Graded student reports
  • Taught two lectures, one solving example 1D flow problems and one written from scratch on pumps and pump capability

TA: ChE 540, Transport Phenomena

Masters-level lecture, Purdue University, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, 2024

My duties included:

  • Weekly office hours, answering homework questions
  • Taught two lectures, working through professor’s notes as requested

LyoSummerSchool 2024

Tutorial on lyophilization to industrial representatives, LyoHUB, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, 2024

I taught two hour-long sessions as part of a 2-day workshop on lyophilization:

  • Theory of conventional mathematical models for lyophilization
  • Practical lyophilization cycle design basics, including an interactive session with participants using LyoHUB app on their phone to run the model