Presenter

Tanzima Islam is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University (TXST). Dr. Islam earned her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and was a postdoctoral scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Her research develops software tools and data-driven analysis techniques to automatically identify performance problems of scientific applications running on High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. She has received two prestigious and highly selective early-career awards: the NSF CAREER Award and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Early Career Research Program (ECRP) Award. The impact of her research has been recognized nationally and internationally through awards such as the R&D 100 award, the Science and Technology award from LLNL, and TXST's Presidential Award. DOE, NSF, TXST, AMD, and various national laboratories have generously funded Dr. Islam’s research.

Dr. Islam is the co-founder of Bangladeshi Women in Computer Science and Engineering (BWCSE)—a pioneering platform launched in 2014 to support Bangladeshi women pursuing degrees in computing. Through a combination of mentoring, research guidance, and resource sharing, BWCSE has helped hundreds of students strengthen their scholarly profiles and access national and international opportunities.