Tom Mccauley
Physicist And Research Consultant at University of Notre Dame
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Mccauley is a physicist and research consultant with 15 years of experience building software and outreach tools for large-scale particle physics experiments including CMS at the LHC and IceCube. Based in London, he co-coordinates the Data Preservation and Open Access project for CMS and creates visualizations used in external communications, bringing scientific rigor to public-facing data tools. He has a PhD in physics and a track record of combining front-end development—most notably integrating the iSpy-WebGL event display into the CERN Open Data portal—with research consulting across universities and national labs. Tom’s work sits at the intersection of data stewardship, education (QuarkNet/I2U2), and interactive visualization, making complex detector data more accessible to scientists and the public alike.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Physics, M.S., Physics at Binghamton UniversityPh.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Siena College
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
d3js8
flask-ask7
flask7
python6
big-data4
open-data4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cernopendata/opendata.cern.ch
Aug 2014 - Jun 2020
Source code for the CERN Open Data portal
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 75 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the CERN Open Data portal, specifically within the event visualization features. Their work involved integrating a browser-based event display (iSpy-WebGL) to visualize CMS data, encompassing the implementation of the display within the portal, and incorporating features such as file loading, button integrations, and various user interface improvements like styling, help tabs, and control information. These changes aimed to improve usability and provide more interactive tools for data exploration within the portal.
digital-librarypythoncerninveniosoftwaredigital-repository
HEPPanoramic/cms-aframe
Jul 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:35 commits, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
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