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Dr. Tanzima Islam

  • Associate Professor - Computer Science
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Biography and education

Tanzima Islam is an Associate Professor at Texas State University (TXST) 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 National Science Foundation's CAREER award, Department Of Energy's Early Career Award, the R&D 100 award, the Science and Technology Award from LLNL, and the Presidential Seminar Award at TXST. 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

  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Principal). NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, Federal, $650000. (Submitted: July 24, 2024, Funded: January 1, 2025 - September 30, 2030). Grant.
  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Other), Yeom, Jae-Seung (Principal). ICE4HPC: Towards the Intelligent Center for HPC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, $750000. (Submitted: July 2022, Funded: October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025). Grant.
  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Co-Principal), Pouchard, Line (Principal), Nicolae, Bogdan (Co-Principal). Scalable Metadata And Provenance Services for Reproducible Hybrid Workflows, Department of Energy, Federal, $2430000. (Submitted: July 2022, Funded: September 15, 2022 - September 14, 2025). Grant.
  • Islam, Tanzima Z (Principal). DoE Early Career Research Program, Department of Energy, Federal, $760819. (Submitted: January 20, 2022, Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2027). 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.
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  • 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
  • Islam, T. Z., Yu, W., Sato, K., Mohror, K., Zhu, Y., Moody, A., & Wang, T. (2017). MetaKV: A Key-Value Store for Metadata Management of Distributed Burst Buffer (pp. 1174–1183). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2017.39
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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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