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Dr. Tanzima Islam

  • Associate Professor - Computer Science
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Biography and education

Tanzima Islam is an assistant professor at Texas State University who specializes in maximizing scientific returns through the synergistic use of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She holds her Ph.D. from Purdue University and pursued postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Dr. Islam has received numerous awards for the impact of her research, including the Department Of Energy's Early Career Award, the R&D 100 award, the Science and Technology Award from LLNL, and the Presidential Award at Texas State University. Additionally, she is the co-founder of the first research and mentoring platform in Bangladesh, BWCSE (https://bwcse.wordpress.com), which provides research and career development training to female computer science and engineering students in developing countries.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Lewis, Karen A, Whitten, Steven T (Co-Principal), Hough, Loren (Co-Principal), Hodby, Eleanor (Co-Principal), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Supporting), Close, Eleanor W (Supporting), Rangelov, Blagoy (Supporting), Islam, Tanzima Z (Supporting), Betancourt, Tania (Supporting), Berry, Joe (Supporting), Finklestein, Noah (Supporting), MacGregor, Meredith (Supporting), Brown, Jed (Supporting), Eaves, Joel (Supporting). Creating Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education, Sloan Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $249299. (Submitted: September 2, 2022, Funded: January 2023 - Present). Grant.
  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Principal). Deep Learning for Predictive Performance Analysis during Application Development, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: January 1, 2021 - Present). Grant.
  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Principal), Ayala, Alexis, Jensen, Quentin. Proxy Application Validation for Exascale Co-design, Department of Energy, Federal, $40000. (Funded: June 2019 - September 2019). Grant.
  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Co-Principal). Scientific Data Visualization course development, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Western Washington University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $12000. (Funded: 2018). Grant.
  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Principal). veritas for Understanding Performance Evolution during Code Development, Linking Ex-ploratory Application Research to Next-gen Development, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $200000. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
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  • Islam, T. Z., & Phelps, C. (2021). HPC@SCALE: A Hands-on Approach for Training Next-Gen HPC Software Architects. https://doi.org/10.1109/HiPCW54834.2021.00011
  • Patki, T., Thiagarajan, J. J., Ayala, A., & Islam, T. Z. (2019). Performance optimality or reproducibility: that is the question (pp. 1--30). ACM/IEEE.
  • Islam, T. Z., Ayala, A., Jensen, Q., & Ibrahim, K. (2019). Toward a Programmable Analysis and Visualization Framework for Interactive Performance Analytics. In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) (pp. 70--77). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ProTools49597.2019.00015
  • Islam, T. Z. (2019, March). SCR: Scalable Checkpoint / Restart (SCR) Library. Retrieved from https://github.com/LLNL/scr
  • Thiagarajan, J. J., Anirudh, R., Kailkhura, B., Jain, N., Islam, T. Z., Bhatele, A., … Gamblin, T. (2018). PADDLE: Performance Analysis using a Data-driven Learning Environment (pp. 784--793). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2018.00088
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Research Millionaire FY2022-2024, College of Science and Engineering at Texas State University. October 14, 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Seminar Award, Texas State University. November 5, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: R&D 100, R&D 100 Magazine. November 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Poster Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Annual Scholars Poster Symposium. 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: LLNL Director’s Science & Technology Award for Excellence in Publication, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. October 2014
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  1. Board of Directors

    Bangladeshi Women in Computer Science and Engineering

  2. Reviewer / Referee

    DOE SciDAC Proposal Reviewer Panel

  3. Coordinator / Organizer

    International Workshop on Big Data Computation, Analysis & Applications (BDCAA)

  4. Attendee / Participant

    NSF OAC Proposal Review Panel

  5. Attendee / Participant

    NSF SHF Proposal Review Panel

  6. Editor

    Journal of Parallel Computing

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