Tom Bensky
Professor Of Physics at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Bensky is a tenured physics professor and software-minded inventor in California with 12+ years of academic experience and a career of practical engineering stretching back to the 1990s. He builds education-first software—tools like Proton (AI-automated class management), PhysGL, CodeByMath, and a location-based attendance app used by thousands—that have dramatically reduced administrative overhead and lowered the barrier to learning math and physics via code. His research blends precision experimental work (a Rubidium atomic clock lab) with computational techniques including neural nets, genetic algorithms, constraint logic programming and numerical methods. Comfortable from low-level electronics and CNC fabrication to web-based WebGL simulations and PyTorch models, he translates rigorous math into usable systems for students and departments. Colleagues rely on him to mentor teams and to ship pragmatic, repeatable solutions that sit at the intersection of teaching, computation, and hardware.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Virginia
Github Skills (7)
tracer8
contract7
animation3
3d-graphics2
webgl2
lamp1
php1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tbensky/celnav
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
tbensky/ProjectClock
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 74 pushes in 11 days
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