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Tanner Aslan

Hey, I’m Tanner Aslan.

I’m a senior studying a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, but I’m originally from Kentucky. I graduate in May 2027.

I started my CS journey with game development, but I’m now interested in full stack development and graphics programming.

This last summer, I was a front-end software engineering intern at Klaviyo in Boston, where I was on the activation team. The summer before that, I was on the checkout team at SeatGeek in NYC.

Before Klaviyo, I spent a few months as a research assistant with the University of Michigan Field Robotics Group, building a GPU-accelerated side-scan sonar simulator in NVIDIA Isaac Sim. That work became “OceanSim 2.0,” a paper accepted to IEEE OCEANS 2026.

I like building things and exploring ways to integrate WebGL into website design. Right now I’m working on shadercn.com, an open-source React component library for adding shaders to your website, and MaizeMeals, a dining app for UofM students.

Outside of work, I play the violin and enjoy composing music as a hobby.

This portfolio is built with Next.js, React, and Typescript. It’s deployed on Vercel and the source code is available on Github.

WebGL Engine Demo
A live demo of a custom ECS-based WebGL engine featuring atmospheric scattering, PBR lighting, and procedural terrain.
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My Trip to San Francisco
A Kentuckian’s first time west of the Mississippi
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The impact of the automobile on American cities
The automobile has become a staple of American life. But how has increased dependence on cars impacted our cities?
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My experience making a chess engine
Some consider making a chess engine a rite of passage for making programmers. Here's an article about my experience making one.
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Creating a general formula for the nth derivative
Most calculus students are familiar with the Cauchy formula for repeated integration. What if there was a similar formula, but for differ...
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The challenges of real time ocean simulation
Oceans are huge and infinitely complex, so how do computers visualize them in real time?
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Recreating Lusion Lab's AKARI light beams
This post explores rendering 2D path traced light beams using sign distance fields and soft shadow algorithms.
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