Biography
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.
Research Interests
My research involves both modeling compute performance and designing scalable data movement strategies for large-scale applications in HPC environments. In the short-term, I am interested in leveraging data-driven analysis approach for comparative modeling with a focus on HPC co-design. My long-term research objective revolves around developing software solutions to ensure scalable performance under resilience and power constraints for large-scale systems.
Teaching Interests
High Performance Computing, Systems, Compiler Construction, Parallel Computing, fault-tolerance