Tongtong Cao
Staff Scientist at Jefferson Lab
Yorktown, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolTongtong Cao is a Staff Scientist with a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and over 17 years of experience in data analysis and detector development, currently improving tracking software and R&D for CLAS12 at Jefferson Lab. She has a strong track record building high-performance tracking and calibration packages using advanced algorithms (Kalman Filter, Deterministic Annealing) across international experiments in the U.S., Japan, and Switzerland. Her work spans Monte Carlo simulation, trigger design, and electronics/PCB development, pairing deep physics insight with practical software and instrumentation skills. Tongtong consistently handles massive experimental datasets to extract physics results, and she has repeatedly translated complex detector requirements into validated, high-efficiency reconstruction tools. Based in Yorktown, Virginia, she combines academic rigor (Ph.D. with 3.9/4.0) with hands-on engineering, often bridging simulation, firmware/electronics, and analysis pipelines. Colleagues value her for delivering robust, production-ready solutions that advance both experiment performance and analysis fidelity.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Nuclear Physics, Master’s Degree, Nuclear Physics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics, 3.9/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics, 3.9/4.0 at University of South Carolina
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (10)
computer-vision10
photon10
image-processing10
java9
detector6
simulation4
geant44
particle-physics4
simulation-framework3
ruby2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tongtongcao/simulation_for_GDtoKLN
Dec 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 9 months
tongtongcao/trekTracking
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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