Isaac Leventon
Project Leader Engineered Fire Safe Products (EFSP) at University of Maryland
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsaac Leventon is a fire protection engineering leader with a decade of experience advancing quantitative understanding of material flammability, ignition, and early fire growth as Project Leader of NIST’s Engineered Fire Safe Products program. He holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland and blends deep experimental and analytical expertise with applied research on wildland-urban interface hazards such as firebrand generation. Isaac regularly translates research into education—teaching graduate courses at UMD and designing a pre-college fire dynamics course to spark STEM interest—and mentors students from K-12 through graduate levels. At NIST he aims to create a predictive framework for fire size across arbitrary products and conditions, combining rigorous laboratory methods with real-world hazard characterization. Outside the lab he volunteers with youth and veteran hockey programs and a volunteer fire department, reflecting a sustained commitment to community engagement and practical firefighting perspectives.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet / Technical University of DenmarkThe University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (7)
simulation10
computational-fluid-dynamics10
simulator10
dynamics10
database9
measurement9
computation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leventon/matl-db
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Condensed Phase Material Database
Contributions:8 PRs, 260 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
databasephasecondensed
MaCFP/matl-db
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Condensed Phase Material Database
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 63 commits in 2 years 9 months
databasephasecondensed
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