WIT Talk with Tanya Levshina, CMS Software and Computing Operations at Fermilab

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Tanya Levshina was born and raised in the Soviet Union. She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas with a MS degree in Applied Mathematics. She started her career as an associate scientist working in the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences and later in the Institute of Mathematical Geophysics and Earthquake Prediction. With her husband and two daughters, she immigrated to the US in 1991. In the US she continued her work at the UCLA on earthquake prediction algorithms using pattern recognition methods. Later, she relocated to Chicago and started her work at Fermilab. She was involved in the Open Science Grid working on several projects. She led Fermilab’s Scientific Distributed Computing Solutions department for more than 5 years. Tanya joined US CMS Software and Computing Operations in February 2020 as a L2 co-coordinator for Operations area. She is also contributing as a PM to Fermilab HEP Cloud Project that extends access to resources to commercial and community clouds, grid federations and HPC centers.
 
Throughout her career Tanya has encouraged and helped young people to find their creative path. Tanya participates in Fermilab’s efforts to hire and support women and underrepresented minorities. She strongly believes that women should play a bigger role in STEM and tries to encourage students to choose STEM as a carrier.
 

Tanya will be interviewed by Maria Dimou. Maria graduated in Physics from Athens university and Computing from the university of Brussels. After almost 5 years of permanent contract with IBM, she resigned to join a research environment. She is CERN IT dept. staff for 33 years. Her projects include the email gateway evolution, network configuration in the computer centre for the SHIFT project, web operation and deputy GL role in the Web Office, linux support, various Grid middleware packages in WLCG, the IT e-learning initiative, an investigation of Markdown for static documentation, a web-based Slides' maker and Solid - the future-of-the-web project by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. She loves human languages (now learning the 7th), is an amateur dancer and believes that art should be a mandatory aspect of education and an important part of everybody's life.

Maria and Tanya were the co-creators of the "Women Programmers Interview Project":

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