LPC Distinguished Researchers - 2025

Garvita Agarwal ... 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 ...
Ruchi Chudasama ... end-to-end particle reconstruction and identification ... advanced deep-learning techniques ... end-to-end techniques to search for new physics specifically for light mass pseudoscalar to four hadronic taus as well as four electron decay of the Higgs boson ... HGCAL silicon module testing ... .
Grace Cummings ... lead the B2G Very Heavy Fermions subgroup ... push the Run 2 + Run 3 search for heavy stable charged particles in the tracker ... pursue dual readout crystal calorimetry for future colliders ...
Irene Dutta ... rare Higgs Boson processes ... developing precision time-of-flight instrumentation ... Run 3 search for HH → bbγγ ... boosted category with the ParticleNet tagger ... machine learning algorithm to discriminate between signal and background ... lead system tests and QA/QC for Endcap Timing Layer modules at FNAL ... 4D tracking solutions for future particle colliders ...
Pedro Fernández Manteca ... Run 3 CMS data search for long-lived particles (LLPs) decaying in the CMS muon detectors ... developing new triggers ... enhance the sensitivity to exotic signatures ... Run 3 and Phase 2 ...
Abhijith Gandrakota ... beyond the standard model (BSM) physics ... improved unsupervised machine learning algorithm for anomaly detection implemented in the Level 1 hardware and for 2025 data taking ... analyze data collected by AXOL1TL ... next generation of multijet search ... probing the SM portal to hidden sectors for a comprehensive dark shower exploration ....
Sergei Gleyzer ... spatiotemporal reconstruction algorithms for the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) and its applications to dual-readout calorimeters ... continuous machine learning for data quality monitoring and trigger applications ... advanced machine learning techniques for rare Higgs boson decay searches ...
Andrew Loeliger ... development and improvement of ML anomaly detection techniques for the Level 1 Trigger ... development of model-independent ML anomaly detection analyses ...
Nicholas Manganelli ... Effective Field Theory analyses ...testing and upgrades to X2O for the new backend for Cathode Strip Chambers ... on-demand column-joining (including extensions with native Object Stores) ... work with Smart Pixels ...
Luigi Marchese ... BPhysics ...Beyond Standard Model (BSM) ... Exotics ... Dark Photons... Lepton-Flavour-Universality Violation (LFUV)... ECAL ... Outer Tracker ... Upgrade ... Silicon R&D ... DCS ... Trigger development, maintenance and commissioning ... Machine Learning ...
Emery Nibigira ... Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) particle searches ... unconventional track signatures and long lifetimes ... testing of CMS Outer Tracker Phase2 Upgrade modules and development of the Data Acquisition (DAQ) framework ... supporting and training central Data Acquisition (DAQ) shifters at the Fermilab Remote Operating Center (ROC) for the 2025 data taking ...
Marko Stamenkovic ... Higgs boson self-coupling ... HHH production mode ... develop a tagger to identify the sign of the electric charge of jets ... contribute to the HGCAL detector upgrade project ... test the large number of ECON production chips ...
Irene Zoi ... VBS WV semileptonic events, with a particular emphasis on the search for anomalous quartic gauge couplings and polarization studies ... Outer Tracker, which is entering the production phase ... testing the modules while training students and postdocs ... oversee module QA & QC procedures... MAPS R&D ...