Editing Hall of Fame

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This page honors individuals who made crucial contributions to Madagascar's development and to the Madagascar community. You can read their stories by following the links below.

==Ioan "Nick" Vlad==

[[Nick Vlad]] enhanced Madagascar installation by improving directory structures and configuration scripts. He maintained the Madagascar wiki pages and generated much of their content. He actively participated in community discussions and created the [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1847746/ LinkedIn group] for Madagascar users.

==Pengliang Yang==

[[Pengliang Yang]] developed efficient CUDA codes for fast execution on GPU devices and provided examples of their usage in geophysical tasks, from forward wave modeling to full waveform inversion. He served as an instructor at Madagascar schools, including [[Harbin 2015|Harbin-2015]] and [[Zurich 2016|Zurich-2016]].

==Vladimir Bashkardin==

[[Vladimir Bashkardin]] wrote [https://ahay.org/RSF/sfoglpen.html oglpen], a Vplot visualization program based on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL OpenGL]. He also developed new tools for parallel computing and handling large-scale datasets. Vladimir actively participated in the Madagascar community and taught at Madagascar schools, including [[Houston 2010|Houston-2010]].

==Yang Liu==

[[Yang Liu]] contributed code, reproducible examples, and research papers. He taught at numerous Madagascar schools, including [[Houston 2010|Houston-2010]], [[Beijing 2011|Beijing-2011]], [[Melbourne 2013|Melbourne-2013]], and [[Shanghai 2017|Shanghai-2017]]. Yang played a critical role in promoting Madagascar in China and hosted [[Hefei 2020|Hefei-2020]] at the 1st Asia-Pacific Geophysics Student Conference. He currently maintains the Madagascar webserver.

==Jeff Godwin==

[[Jeff Godwin]] wrote a [[Tutorial|Madagascar Tutorial]] and useful Python scripts, including [[tkMadagascar|TkMadagascar]], an example of a complete interactive environment. He also helped many other users and taught at the Madagascar school in [[Houston 2010|Houston-2010]].

==Jim Jennings==

[[Jim Jennings]] was the first active Madagascar user outside the geophysics community. He contributed [https://github.com/ahay/src/tree/master/book/geostats Python packages for geostatistical modeling] and improved the Madagascar infrastructure by writing [[Automatic_Testing|scripts for reproducibility testing]]. Jim actively participated in the Madagascar community and served as an instructor at Madagascar schools, including [[RSF_Austin_School_2007|Austin-2007]] and [[Houston 2010|Houston-2010]].

==Joe Dellinger==

[[Joe Dellinger]] is the primary author of [[Graphics_development_with_vplot|Vplot]]. Originally developed at Stanford in the 1980s, Vplot serves as Madagascar's plotting library today. During the [[2008_Implementation_Workshop|Golden-2008]] workshop, Joe developed the *sfvplotdiff* program for comparing Vplot files, the cornerstone for reproducibility testing. Joe taught at multiple Madagascar schools and workshops, including [[RSF_School_and_Workshop,_Vancouver_2006|Vancouver-2006]], [[RSF_Austin_School_2007|Austin-2007]], and [[Houston 2010|Houston-2010]].

==Zicheng Geng==

[[Zicheng Geng]] played a leading role in maintaining and developing Madagascar in the 2010s. Among other contributions, he converted the Python code to version 3, introduced unit testing, and enhanced [https://ahay.org/blog/2016/02/20/continuous-reproducibility-using-circleci/ continuous integration] using CircleCI.