Noor Aftab
Astronomy Research Assistant (Ph.D Program) at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNoor Aftab is a software engineer and astronomy researcher currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Columbia University with eight years of combined industry and research experience. She has shipped production web services and systems at Google while bridging astronomical research and full‑stack development, bringing a habit of thinking at both system and cosmic scales. Her background tutoring and running makerspace projects reflects strong mentorship and hands‑on prototyping skills that accelerate translating ideas into working tools. Comfortable in both academia and industry, Noor excels at interdisciplinary problems where data, code, and physical intuition intersect. Unusually, she pairs high‑impact software engineering experience with ongoing observational and theoretical astronomy work, making her adept at building tools that meet researchers’ real needs.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Astronomy Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Astronomy Computer Science at Mount Holyoke CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy at Columbia University
English, Urdu, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
nooraftab/wordsearch
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
nooraftab/Tetris
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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