Tom Looby
Manager, Boundary Digital Twin at Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolTom Looby is a fusion scientist and engineering manager with nine years of experience leading boundary physics and digital twin efforts at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, combining deep expertise in tokamak divertor physics, plasma–material interactions, and integrated modelling with AI/ML techniques. He progressed from hands-on plasma heat-flux science to managing the Boundary Digital Twin team, applying software pipelines for 3D non-axisymmetric heat-load prediction developed during a PhD supported by Oak Ridge and Princeton affiliations. Tom’s background spans national labs and industry R&D, from pulsed-power diagnostics at Sandia to electrical systems and field engineering earlier in his career, giving him unusual breadth across experiment, simulation, and hardware. He holds a PhD and MS in Nuclear Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering, and is known for building simulation environments that bridge CAD geometries to preshot estimation—bringing practical, production-ready modelling to fusion device design.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), History Emphasis, Associate of Arts (AA), History Emphasis at Colorado Mountain CollegeCertificate - STCW-95, Marine Maintenance/Fitter and Ship Repair Technology/Technician, Certificate - STCW-95, Marine Maintenance/Fitter and Ship Repair Technology/Technician at Orange Coast CollegeBachelor's of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Electrical Engineering at University of DenverDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Spanish, English
Github Skills (22)
simulations10
gamma10
heat10
hpc-applications10
electrical-engineering10
flux9
snl-applications9
hydrodynamics9
python8
plotly6
charts6
webgl6
visualization6
twine5
regl5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
plasmapotential/HEAT
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Heat flux Engineering Analysis Toolkit
Contributions:11 releases, 25 reviews, 245 commits in 2 years 7 months
pythonhpc-applicationsanalysis-toolkitsnl-applicationsheat
plasmapotential/scratchPad
Jun 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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