Tara Athan
Owner at Athan Services
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolTara Athan is a knowledge representation and applied mathematics specialist with over 15 years running Athan Services and a research pedigree dating to a 1986 Caltech Ph.D. in bending of thin plates. She transitioned from quantitative modeling across fluid mechanics, combustion, fate & transport, and probabilistic risk assessment to focus on formalizing how simulation results and models are represented, contributing to RuleML, LegalRuleML and Common Logic. Her career spans national labs, academia and industry roles where she led interdisciplinary teams on Bayesian analysis, multi-resolution methods and decision support for environmental problems. Based in West Lafayette, she combines deep theoretical insight with practical implementation experience, uniquely blending cartography/GIS training from Leeds with decades of simulation modeling. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex scientific simulations into auditable, machine-readable knowledge structures that support policy and decision-making.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraBachelor's degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster's degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Master's degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at University of LeedsMasters of Science, Mathematics, Masters of Science, Mathematics at The University of Texas at ArlingtonCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
reaction10
static-files10
ontologies9
spec9
rsp9
semantics9
markov-model9
owl9
maven9
hidden-markov-model8
react8
semantic-web8
ontology8
emma8
artifacts8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
greenTara/RSP-QL
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:20 PRs, 79 pushes, 21 branches in 7 months
rspsemantics
OOjDREW/oojdrew-website
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:22 commits in 11 days
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