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Jack Topper
Graduate, Stanford Center for Professional Development
BioJack Topper is a Scientific Software Engineer at NASA’s Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), where he designs and operates large-scale scientific data and modeling systems supporting the global space-weather research community. His work focuses on automating high-performance computing workflows, building resilient data pipelines, and translating complex scientific models into reliable, user-facing services.
He collaborates closely with domain scientists to bridge research objectives and production-grade software, and has taken on technical leadership responsibilities spanning system architecture, reliability, and user adoption. His interests sit at the intersection of optimization, decision systems, machine learning, and large-scale infrastructure, with an emphasis on how mathematical models and data-driven methods inform real-world operational decisions.
Jack is currently pursuing Stanford’s Data, Models, and Optimization Certificate through the Stanford Center for Professional Development, including coursework in convex optimization and related decision-science foundations. -
Nguyen Dang Khoa Tran
Graduate, Stanford Center for Professional Development
BioA professional practitioner in quantitative finance specializing in portfolio optimization, with a keen interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence
