Research Statement

I study particle physics as a member of the ATLAS group at Argonne National Laboratory. My particular interests involve beyond the Standard Model physics and the properties of the Higgs boson. I develop new ways in which machine learning can be used to further these goals. Anomaly detection allows for searches sensitive to a wide range of new physics signatures and advanced Transformer models identify particles with unprecedented accuracy. I use supercomputers to run these algorithms, taking advantage of their massive computing power and speed to improve them.

Research Areas

Physics

Particle physics as part of the ATLAS experiment at CERN

Data Science

Usage of data to reveal truths of the world around us

Machine Learning

Cutting-edge machine learning applied to complex physics problems

Anomaly Detection

Identify unusual signatures in a new paradigm of BSM search

High-Performance Computing

Scaling ML training on some of the largest supercomputers

Current Projects

Systematic-Aware ML Training

Incorporate theoretical and experimental uncertainties into ML training to reduce impact on model performance

Anomaly Detection Using Unsupervised Learning in Search for New Physics

Employ anomaly detection technique in model-independent search for new particles

Resonant Di-Higgs Search in bbll+MET Final State

Search for Beyond the Standard Model signatures coupling to the Higgs boson