Tanim I.

Tanim I.

Livermore, CA
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About Me

Tanim has a solid scientific background in using Python for research. He is an expert at using Python for scientific pre-processing, post-processing, and C and Fortran code wrapping. He has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics. For the past ten years, he has worked at a national lab on interesting physics projects in the US national interest. He has leveraged his skillset in scientific and numerical Python on data sets up to 1 TB in size.

Backend

Flask Python

Database

SQL

Workflow

Github

Other

C Fortran Java Linux Matlab NVIDIA CUDA Numpy PyQt 4 PyQt 5 Pycharm SciPy C++ Shell

Work history

Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Physicist
2011 - Present (14 years)
Remote

  • Set up problems and implemented post-processing functionalities in Python and Fortran.

  • Made enhancements to VisIt (wci.llnl.gov/visit) visualization software.

  • Researched and incorporated new functionality into KIM3D particle-in-cell code.

  • Was responsible for stockpile stewardship.

  • Conducted general astrophysics research.

C++CFortranPython
University Affiliated Research Center
Software Engineer
2008 - 2011 (3 years)
Remote

  • Supported air traffic control research.

  • Designed a fairly straightforward purely Java-based multiprocessing air traffic simulator useful in exploring research concepts.

  • Designed a Java-templated weather product application to help researchers more easily determine the effects of convective weather.

  • Published work on analysis of airspace tube structures, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4702805&tag=1.

  • Published work on metrics used to improve the performance of next-generation airspace structures, http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2010-8288.

C++CEclipseJava

Showcase

NPR Projects

  • Provides command-line tools for downloading NPR programs.

  • Includes a GUI for printing and displaying articles from online periodicals.

  • Focuses on simple code snippets for efficient program functionality.

Metareadwrite

  • Reads and writes music metadata using Boost and music tagging libraries via the command line.

  • Provides a tool for managing music metadata, potentially including tagging and analysis.

  • Offers a command-line interface for interacting with music metadata data.

COVID-19 tracker

  • Visualizes COVID-19 cases and deaths over the continental United States, individual states, and major metropolitan areas.

  • Utilizes the NY Times COVID-19 database for data visualization.

  • Provides daily updates on COVID-19 trends through two separate resources: https://tanimislam.github.io/covid19_stats and https://tanimislam.gitlab.io/blog/covid19-running-update.

NPRStuff

  • The project began as an API and command-line tools for downloading NPR's Fresh Air, Wait Wait, and PRI's This American Life.

  • The project has expanded the API with tools for multimedia tasks like autocropping, movie conversion to GIFs, and image frame concatenation.

  • Sphinx documentation is available at https://tanimislam.github.io/nprstuff.

Howdy

  • This repository provides a comprehensive set of tools for administering a Plex server.

  • The GitHub repository is hosted at https://github.com/tanimislam/howdy.

  • The Howdy Sphinx documentation is available at https://tanimislam.github.io/howdy/.

Education

Education
Doctorate in Astrophysics
University of Virginia
2003 - 2007 (4 years)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Physics
California Institute of Technology
1997 - 2000 (3 years)