James Law
Group Lead For The North American Integrated Computing Team At ALMA Telescope Operations
Socorro, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJames Law is a software engineering leader with 15 years of experience who currently leads the North American Integrated Computing Team for ALMA telescope operations, coordinating complex distributed systems that support world-class radio astronomy. His background blends academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with applied research and cybersecurity work for U.S. naval and cyber commands, giving him deep expertise in scalable analytics, pattern-search algorithms, and mission-critical software. He has moved between research, government, and operational roles—from postdoctoral collaborations in Europe to building prototype expert systems for the Navy—demonstrating an ability to translate theory into robust production capabilities. Based in Socorro, NM, he combines hands-on technical stewardship with team leadership across international, multi-institutional projects. A less obvious strength is his history of crossing domains (mining engineering to computer science) which fosters interdisciplinary problem solving under operational constraints.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer science - network performance analysis, MS, Computer science - network performance analysis at San Francisco State UniversityPhD, Computer science, PhD, Computer science at Oregon State UniversityBS, Mining Engineering, BS, Mining Engineering at University of Idaho
Github Skills (22)
meteorology10
reduction10
measurements10
cosmology10
infrared10
signal-processing10
cluster-computing10
grib10
mass-spectrometry10
brain-computer-interface10
hpc-applications10
rtl-sdr10
software-defined-radio10
gnuradio10
astronomy9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
JimNrao/casacore
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 5 months
radio-astronomydata-processingc-plus-plusastronomyradio
radio-astro/casa
Feb 2011 - Apr 2017
Contributions:556 commits in 6 years 3 months
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