Tanim Islam
Design Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolTanim Islam is a Design Physicist with 13 years of experience applying physics and software engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, following earlier software work for NASA’s air traffic research on the FACET tool. He combines a rigorous academic background—Caltech BS in Physics, MIT studies in plasma physics, and a PhD in astrophysics from UVA—with hands-on development of research-grade simulation and analysis tools. Comfortable at the intersection of theory and implementation, he has a track record of turning complex physical models into practical software used in national laboratory settings. His career includes international research experience at Ecole Normale Supérieure and a history of collaborating under multidisciplinary teams and government contracts. Colleagues know him for quiet persistence and a wry sense of humor—he once noted he plans to photograph himself “praying to his computer” in his office. Based in Livermore, CA, he brings deep domain knowledge and a pragmatic engineering approach to challenging scientific problems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
middle schooldoctorate, astrophysics, doctorate, astrophysics at University of VirginiaEcole normale supérieureplasma physics, plasma physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technologybachelor's of science, physics, bachelor's of science, physics at California Institute of Technologyhigh school diploma, high school diploma at Maggie Walker High School
French, Bengali
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Github Skills (85)
pyside10
google-music10
plex10
media10
npr10
token-based-authentication9
rss9
jackett9
torrent9
api9
jwt-authentication9
python9
proxy9
sustainability9
climate-change9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tanimislam/ive_tanim
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:13 commits, 90 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
tanimislam/nprstuff
Nov 2012 - Dec 2022
I like NPR, so I made some scripts to download my favorite programs from NPR
Contributions:1 release, 553 commits, 2 PRs in 10 years 2 months
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