v0.16.0: Merge pull request #125 from neelabhg/fixes_and_updates

This release was created so that the code upto the target commit can be archived by Zenodo, so that a DOI can be generated for citation in my Senior Thesis.

I've tried to take ideas from semantic versioning, so this release version was created such that:

• The major version is for big public releases (so it is currently 0, an MVP is not ready yet)
• The minor version is for new features or significant changes (I counted the number of pull-requests introducing new features into master)
• The patch version is for bug fixes and other minor updates (which is 0 at the moment because the pull-request merged in the target commit introduced significant changes, and hence increased the minor version)