LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2018

Yangyang Cheng ... new physics, especially new dark sector models with long-lived particles ...detector upgrade studies .. for HL-LHC ...
Matteo Cremonesi ... searches for Dark Matter (DM) production at CMS, co-leading the monotop analysis, promoting at the LPC the exchange on DM direct and indirect detection and production at the LHC ...
Nicola De Filippis ... search of Dark Matter at the LHC through a mono-Higgs signature... and the search for a heavy neutral gauge boson (namely Z') ... impact of the Phase II CMS upgrade on the reconstruction of the Higgs boson in the four-lepton channel ...
Sergei Gleyzer ... working on advanced deep learning techniques to improve Higgs analysis sensitivity and designing machine learning implementations for the trigger system ...
Abdollah Mohammadi ... search for Dark Matter (DM) in Leptoquark plus MET signature... and search for the Higgs boson anomalous HVV coupling in the decay of a Higgs boson to a pair of tau leptons ... development of the high-granularity calorimeter (HGCAL) ...
Norbert Neumeister ... searches for new particles in dilepton final states and development of muon reconstruction algorithms ...
Isobel Rose Ojalvo ... probing the nature of Higgs couplings to fermions ... upgrades to the CMS tracker...
Nathaniel Joseph Pastika ... advanced methods of top tagging employing machine learning techniques ... looking specifically for third generation sparticles whose final states contain top and bottom quarks... ongoing phase 1 and 2 calorimeter upgrade effort ...
Rishi Patel ... Supersymmetry searches with hadronic signatures ... HL-LHC upgrade ...track trigger to boost the new physics event rate that we might be currently missing ...
Kevin J Pedro ... search for semi-visible jets, which are jets containing a mixture of visible and invisible particles ... software development for the Phase 2 detector upgrades ...
Justin R Pilot ... design new jet substructure algorithms to identify the unique signatures of high-momentum particle decays ...searches for new physics beyond the standard model in fully hadronic final states, specifically new signatures with high multiplicities of top quarks, W, Z, and Higgs bosons ... machine learning techniques ...
Roberto Rossin ... development of a simulation framework for the CMS Track Trigger (TT) upgrade project (Phase 2) ...
Sezen Sekmen ... new SUSY razor boost search ... new SUSY search with disappearing tracks and jets ... organize the full model SUSY interpretation studies for Run2 using the phenomenological MSSM ... improve consistency between FullSim and FastSim ... Phase1 upgrade work ...
Indara Suarez ... searches for physics beyond the SM that will be important during the HL-LHC era ... heavy-object tagging working group recently formed in the SUSY group ...
Caterina Vernieri ... search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the b-quarks decay mode ...improving the existing [b-tagging] algorithm with the use of more sophisticated machine learning tools ...