LHC Physics Center

What I will be working on:

As an LPC distinguished researcher, I would like to focus on:

• developing tools for triggering, reconstructing, and identifying new and peculiar physics signatures across a wide mass spectrum
• developing the online software for the Phase 2 CMS outer tracker
• training and mentoring students to foster a strong and collaborative research team

• My role in CMS past and present:

  I joined CMS in 2018 as a graduate student at the University at Buffalo, with my PhD thesis focused on BSM resonances decaying to top-antitop pairs. During my PhD, I worked extensively on jets, contributing to the JME POG by deriving jet calibrations to account for pileup, working on the Particle Flow algorithm for Run 3 and Phase 2 in the forward region of the CMS detector, and developing a machine learning approach to improve jet substructure decisions using layerwise relevance propagation.
  
  From 2022 to 2024, I served as the L3 convenor for the Jet Energy Resolution and Calibrations subgroup of JME POG and was the JME contact for the B2G PAG from 2021 to 2024. I also contributed significantly to strip tracker operations and served as the Strip Tracker Safety Officer during this period.
  
  Currently, as a postdoc at the University of Notre Dame, I am developing online software for the Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker upgrade, testing tracker modules in high-intensity environments, and leading a physics program focused on BSM searches with boosted diphoton final states.