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Research

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has thrust us into the precision realm of collider physics with its triumphant victory in achieving extraordinary accuracy in the measurement of key fundamental parameters of the Standard Model (SM). The electroweak sector of the SM, specifically the non-Abelian gauge structure, predicts the production of multiple gauge bosons in a single LHC collision event. My primary research interests lie in studying triboson and vector boson scattering processes. Both of these have only recently been observed given their low production probabilities; however, as the LHC collects more data, characterizing these processes will become integral to the precision program of collider physics. Continuing my studies in the electroweak sector, I am focused on elucidating the role of the Higgs boson in unitarizing the scattering of longitudinally polarized W-bosons.

The second thrust of my research is to benchmark and develop event generator workflows in ATLAS using state-of-the-art, GPU-enabled versions of widely used generators. Event generation is the crucial first step in any simulation workflow. In order to facilitate the precision era of collider physics, significantly greater computational resources will be necessary to implement event generation at higher accuracy. The GPU-enabled versions of these generators are highly performant, demonstrating improvements of up to an order of magnitude in computational time.

A third thrust of my research is to study the efficacy of machine learning-based inference at the global trigger as part of the upgraded ATLAS detector.

Current activities (ATLAS & CMS)

Electroweak multiboson physics in ATLAS (2025–): WWW analysis at Run 3 (13.6 TeV); WWZ analysis in Run 2 and Run 3; diboson analyses in semileptonic and leptonic final states; vector boson scattering (VBS) analyses; scattering of polarized vector bosons in leptonic final states (contact person).
Ultrarare tribosons (2025–): feasibility studies of WZZ and ZZZ processes with graduate student Dipesh Bhandari and undergraduate student Burak Ozsoy.
EFT interpretation in triboson final states in CMS (2020–): spearheading EFT interpretations in these novel final states arising from the various decay products of the gauge bosons.
Global Standard Model EFT analyses in CMS (2020–): combining inputs from several existing Standard Model results, including diboson processes from quark-antiquark annihilation and vector boson scattering.
GPU-based event generation (2023–): deploying GPU-based event generator workflows on High Performance Computing facilities with USCMS operations support.
ML for simulation (2022–): a GNN-based generative model to simulate jets from e⁺e⁻ → W⁺W⁻ events, toward replacing the most computationally expensive part of LHC simulation workflows.
High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) (2016–): precision timing studies for the CMS Phase-2 endcap calorimeter upgrade, and deep-learning-based position and timing regression to characterize its performance.

Interactive detector explorers

Step inside detectors that haven't been built yet.

These browser-based explorers let you tour the full simulation geometries of next-generation collider experiments, layer by layer — from the detectors designed to tame the beam-induced backgrounds of a 10 TeV muon collider to the precision instruments planned for the FCC-ee electroweak and Higgs factory.

Muon Collider: MuColl v1 · MAIA v0 · FCC-ee: CLD (o2_v08) · IDEA (o1_v03) · ALLEGRO (o1_v03)

Earlier research (2008–2020)

First observation of VVV production (2019–2020): search for heavy triboson production in multileptonic final states with full Run 2 data; devised the five- and six-lepton selections sensitive to WZZ and ZZZ. PRL 125 (2020) 151802.
WWW search (2017–2019): search for W±W±W∓ production at 13 TeV, probing new physics in higher-dimensional contributions to the SM quartic couplings; first EFT interpretation in this final state. PRD 100 (2019) 012004.
Generator Studies convener in CMS (2017–2019): validation and integration of event generators in official CMS software releases.
Bayesian Blocks in HEP (2015–2016): application of the Bayesian Blocks algorithm to searches for new physics in the tails of distributions.
Microscopic black holes (2015–2016): search in multi-jet final states at 13 TeV; model-independent limits. PLB 774 (2017) 279.
SUSY with parked data (2014–2015, dissertation): search for supersymmetry in oppositely charged low-p_T di-lepton final states at 8 TeV, sensitive to compressed-spectrum stop pair production via ISR-photon triggers.
Heavy top-like quarks (2012–2013): one of the first searches using the newly discovered Higgs boson as a probe for new physics (multilepton decay modes); performed at CERN. Published in PLB, November 2013. Also contributed 14/33/100 TeV projections for the Snowmass 2013 Community Summer Study and ECFA.
Charge-5/3 exotic quarks (2012–2014): same-sign dilepton search at 7 and 8 TeV. PRL, April 2014.
b-tagging at the LPC (2010–2011): data-driven b-tagging efficiency and scale-factor measurements during early LHC data taking. Published in JINST 8 (2013) P04013.
Vector-like quark phenomenology (2010–2011): discovery potential at the LHC, with Prof. Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab).
Tracker studies (2008–2010): Lorentz-angle calibration of CMS silicon strips; viability of Magnetic Czochralski silicon for the S-LHC tracker upgrade (Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, 2009).

What is the group up to?

A flurry of activity, with the group presenting at domestic and international conferences and workshops:

Mitchell Conference

Texas A&M · May 2026

“Leveraging EFTs to look for new physics in the electroweak sector at the LHC.”

LPC EFT Workshop

LPC EFT Workshop @ JHU

Johns Hopkins University · June 2026

Three group talks — Maryam, Patrick, and I all spoke at the workshop series I organize.

COMETA

COMETA Workshop on Polarization Tagging

Università di Perugia, Umbria · July 1–2, 2026

Postdoc Maryam Bayat Makou gave a talk at the COMETA workshop on polarization tagging for hadronic boosted bosons.

DPF 2026

Fermilab · July 20–24, 2026

Group results on multiboson physics and effective field theory.

US ATLAS Meeting

US ATLAS Workshop

University of Arizona, Tucson · July 2026

Representing the group's ATLAS program: WWW and WWZ at Run 3, polarized VBS, and GPU event generation.

Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab visit

LBNL, Berkeley, CA · late July 2026

Graduate student Dipesh Bhandari traveled to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

FastML 2026

Fast Machine Learning for Science

UC San Diego · Aug 31–Sep 4, 2026

Maryam is traveling to FastML 2026 to present the group's machine-learning work.

QCD@LHC 2026

Oxford, UK · September 2026

Maryam will represent the group at the 16th International QCD@LHC Workshop.

Leadership

Convenerships

March 2026: Event generator convener in the international Future Circular Collider (e⁺e⁻) steering group.
February 2026: Member of the CTEQ Collaboration.
January 2025: Physics Software and Computing convener (L2) in the US Future Circular Collider (e⁺e⁻) steering group.
January 2024: HEP Software Foundation, with a specific focus on event generators.
January 2023: Convener for QCD@LHC 2024, “Event Generator” parallel session.
September 2023: Convener responsible for reviewing multiboson (SMP-VV) analyses in the Standard Model physics analysis group in CMS.
December 2022: Effective Field Theory convener representing Standard Model analyses in the EFT forum in CMS.
June 2021–May 2023: Level 2 convener, Generator Studies Group in CMS.
November 2021: Convener for SM@LHC 2022, “Effective Field Theory” parallel session.
January 2021: Convener for LHCP 2021, “Upgrade and Future Projects” parallel session.
March 2020–March 2022: Level 3 convener in the Upgrade Performance Studies Group (future Higgs, Standard Model, and top studies in CMS).
July 2020–July 2022: Liaison to the Snowmass Energy Frontier Electroweak precision physics and constraining new physics group (EF04), as part of the Snowmass Early Career group.
May 2017–December 2019: Level 3 convener in the Generator Studies group (validation and integration of CMS software releases with respect to event generators).
January 2016–August 2017: Liaison between the New Physics (EXOTICA) analysis group and the simulation group within CMS.

Editorial roles

July 2023: Editor for a comprehensive document highlighting usage of several different Monte Carlo event generators and theoretical models for the implementation of effective field theory scenarios.
November 2022: Chapter editor for the CMS Offline and Computing Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the High-Luminosity LHC.
November 2021: Editor for the Snowmass 2022 Yellow Report, documentation of analysis pertaining to the “Precision QCD” (EF05) topical group.

Professional service

Organizer of the annual LHC Physics Center (LPC) Effective Field Theory (EFT) Workshop series, since 2023.
Organized the Snowmass 2021 community planning meeting at Fermilab (October 5–8, 2020) in association with the Fermilab Scientific Advisory Council.
Organized the Physics Workshop at the LPC: Multibosons at the Energy Frontier.
Elected chair of the Education and Outreach sub-committee in the Users Executive Committee at Fermilab.

Professional memberships

Elected member, Texas-Arkansas-Oklahoma chapter of the American Physical Society.
Elected member, US LHC Users Association Executive Committee.
Elected member, APS Division of Particles and Fields Executive Committee (early career representative).
Chair of the Fermilab Users Executive Committee (2019–2020).
Chair of the Education and Public Outreach subcommittee, Fermilab Users Executive Committee (2018–2019).
Member of the LHC Physics Center Physics Forum Committee at Fermilab (2019).
Elected member of the Fermilab Users Executive Committee (2018–2020).
Member of the American Physical Society.

Community planning: Snowmass, P5, and the European Strategy

Snowmass 2021–2022: Level-3 convener in the CMS upgrade studies performance group, contributing to the Snowmass white paper submitted on behalf of the CMS Collaboration (collation of analyses exploring SM processes, letter of interest, analysis strategy and person-power assessment); liaison to the EF04 group and presenter of EF04 activities on Snowmass Day; selected to deliver talks on Higgs projections for the HL-LHC at the Community Summer Study (Seattle) and the Energy Frontier workshop (Brown University); organized the Snowmass community planning meeting at Fermilab.
P5 (Particle Physics Project Prioritization Process): delivered the talk “Stress-testing the Standard Model using the Effective Field Theory formalism” at the P5 town hall at SLAC, and “Electroweak and Higgs Interplay at FCC-ee” at the virtual P5 town hall.
European Strategy Update: contributed to the document “The Critical Importance of Software for HEP” as part of the HEP Software Foundation.

Reviews

Member of the Analysis Review Committee for the measurement of the τ lepton g−2 in CMS.
Reviewer for the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR).
Reviewer for Physical Review D.
As multiboson convener in CMS: reviewed cross-section measurements of WW (13 and 13.6 TeV), WZ (13.6 TeV), Zγ (leptonic and invisible Z decays), the combination of vector boson scattering analyses, and the combination of several EFT analyses.
As convener in the upgrade studies performance group: reviewed “Prospects for the measurement of ttH, H → bb̅ production in the opposite-sign di-leptonic channel at 14 TeV at the HL-LHC” and “Prospects for the measurement of vector boson scattering production in leptonic W±W± and WZ diboson events at 14 TeV at the HL-LHC”.

Institutional reviews led (2012–2021)

June 2021: “Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum at 13 TeV”, JHEP 11 (2021) 153.
July 2020: “Search for a low-mass dilepton resonance in Higgs boson decays to four-lepton final states at 13 TeV”, EPJC 82 (2022) 290.
October 2018: “Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars with two muons and two b jets at 13 TeV”, PLB 795 (2019) 398.
May 2018: “Search for top+photon production at 13 TeV in the muon+jets channel”, PRL 121, 221802 (2018).
Fall 2015: “Search for supersymmetry at 8 TeV in final states with boosted W bosons and b jets using razor variables”, PRD 93, 092009 (2016).
Summer 2012: “Measurement of the tt̅ production cross section at 7 TeV with lepton + jets final states”, PLB 720 (2013) 83.

Publications with significant contribution

Full publication lists: INSPIRE-HEP · ORCID · Google Scholar

Event generators

CMS Collaboration, Energy scaling behavior of intrinsic transverse momentum in Drell-Yan events, Phys. Rev. D 111 (2025) 072003.
J. Choi, S. Bhattacharya, Accelerating CMS Matrix-Element Event Generation for Drell-Yan and Top Pair Production with Madgraph4GPU, EPJ Web of Conferences 337, 01315 (2025).

Exploration of multiboson final states

CMS Collaboration, Search for new physics in triple boson production at 13 TeV using the effective field theory approach, CMS-PAS-SMP-24-017 — the first search for new physics using boosted massive tribosons at the LHC; featured in CMS news, June 2026.
S. Bhattacharya et al., LHC EFT WG Note: SMEFT predictions, event reweighting, and simulation, SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep., November 2024 — a comprehensive review of the tools for EFT analyses at the LHC.
R. Bellan, S. Bhattacharya et al., A sensitivity study of triboson production processes to dimension-6 EFT operators at the LHC, JHEP 2023, 158 (2023) — the first comprehensive study of higher-order (dimension-6) operator sensitivity in multiboson final states.
CMS Collaboration, Observation of heavy triboson production in leptonic final states at 13 TeV, PRL 125 (2020) 151802 — first observation of VVV production (5.7σ); PRL Editor's Suggestion; featured by Phys.Org and Symmetry magazine.
CMS Collaboration, Search for the production of W±W±W∓ events at 13 TeV, PRD 100 (2019) 012004 — first exploration of tribosons and first EFT interpretation in this final state at 13 TeV.

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

CMS Collaboration, Search for black holes and sphalerons in high-multiplicity final states at 13 TeV, JHEP 11 (2018) 042.
CMS Collaboration, Search for black holes and other new phenomena in high-multiplicity final states at 13 TeV, PLB 774 (2017) 279.
CMS Collaboration, Search for top-quark partners with charge 5/3 in the same-sign dilepton final state, PRL 112 (2014) 171801 — featured in Fermilab Today.
CMS Collaboration, Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark with charge 2/3 at 8 TeV, PLB 729 (2014) 149 — first analysis using the Higgs boson as a probe for new physics via its coupling to a heavy top partner; featured in Fermilab Today.

Physics objects (b-tagging)

CMS Collaboration, Identification of b-quark jets in the CMS experiment, JINST 8 (2013) P04013.

Detector performance

S. Bhattacharya et al., GNN-based end-to-end reconstruction in the CMS Phase 2 High-Granularity Calorimeter, arXiv:2203.01189.
CMS Collaboration, The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Endcap Calorimeter, CMS-TDR-019.
CMS Collaboration, The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Beam Radiation Instrumentation and Luminosity Detectors, CMS-TDR-023.
CMS Collaboration, The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Data Acquisition and High Level Trigger, CMS-TDR-022.

Phenomenological studies and statistical analyses

B. Pollack, S. Bhattacharya, M. Schmitt, Bayesian Blocks in High Energy Physics: Better Binning made easy!, arXiv:1708.00810.

Physics analysis summaries

Observation of heavy triboson production in leptonic final states at 13 TeV, CMS PAS SMP_19_014 (2020).
Search for the production of W±W±W∓ events at 13 TeV, CMS PAS SMP_17_013 (2019).
Search for Black Holes with Early Run 2 Data, CMS PAS EXO_15_007 (2015).
Sensitivity study for ECFA: heavy vector-like charge 2/3 quarks, CMS PAS FTR_13_026 (2013).
Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark by CMS, CMS PAS B2G_12_015 (2013).
Search for T5/3 top partners in same-sign di-lepton final state, CMS PAS B2G_12_012 (2013).
Search for a heavy partner of the top quark with charge 5/3, CMS PAS B2G_12_003 (2012).
b-Jet Identification in the CMS Experiment, CMS PAS BTV_11_004 (2012).
Performance of b-jet identification in CMS, CMS PAS BTV_11_001 (2011).

Conference proceedings

LHCP 2023: “Recent diboson and polarization measurements at CMS”.
LHCP 2020: Multiboson measurements in CMS and ATLAS, on behalf of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations.
ALPS 2019: Electroweak physics with multibosons at the CMS experiment, on behalf of the CMS collaboration.
Search for new physics in dijet and multijet final states at 13 TeV with ATLAS and CMS, on behalf of the CMS collaboration.
Search for Exotic Top Partners at 8 TeV, for the CMS collaboration (hep-ex:1310.2299).
Efficiency measurement of b-tagging algorithms developed by the CMS experiment, for the CMS collaboration (hep-ex:1110.4569).

White papers

Machine Learning on Heterogeneous, Edge, and Quantum Hardware for Particle Physics (ML-HEQUPP), arXiv:2602.22248.
Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision, arXiv:2602.17582.
The Critical Importance of Software for HEP, arXiv:2504.01050.
Les Houches 2023: Physics at TeV Colliders — Standard Model Working Group Report, hep-ph:2406.00708.
Snowmass White Paper Contribution: Electroweak Precision Physics and Constraining New Physics (Snowmass report from EF04).
Snowmass White Paper Contribution: Physics with the Phase-2 ATLAS and CMS Detectors, cds.cern.ch/record/2805993.
Snowmass White Paper Contribution: Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments, hep-ph:2203.11110.
A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights, hep-ph:2203.08230.
CMS Phase-2 Computing Model, cds.cern.ch/record/2815292.
Prospects for a Heavy Vector-Like Charge 2/3 Quark T search at the LHC with 14 and 33 TeV (Snowmass 2013), hep-ex:1309.0026.
Snowmass Energy Frontier Simulations using the Open Science Grid (Snowmass 2013), hep-ex:1308.0843.

Talks

Invited talks and colloquia

Multiboson final states and effective field theories

“Looking for new physics at the multiboson frontier”, Fermilab Wine and Cheese seminar, March 13, 2026.
“Looking for new physics at the multiboson frontier”, Baylor University, December 3, 2025.
“Looking for new physics at the multiboson frontier”, CTEQ Fall Gathering, October 21–22, 2025.
“Multibosons as a portal to new physics”, seminar, University of Michigan, August 12, 2024.
“The road to precision: Stress-testing the Standard Model of Particle Physics” — Texas Tech University (Feb 2024), University of Kansas (Feb 2024), Southern Methodist University (Jan 2024), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Dec 2023), University at Buffalo, SUNY (Nov 2023).
“Looking for new physics in rare and novel processes at the Large Hadron Collider” — Wayne State University (Jun 2023), Brookhaven National Laboratory (Apr 2023), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dec 2022), University of Alabama (Apr 2022), University of Notre Dame (Apr 2022), UC Davis (Mar 2022).
“An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC” — Caltech (May 2022), University of Chicago (Feb 2022), Cornell University (Feb 2022), Northwestern University (Jan 2022), Brookhaven National Laboratory (Dec 2021), University of Mississippi (Nov 2021).
“Search for heavy gauge boson production at the Large Hadron Collider” — UC Davis (Mar 2022), Columbia University (Feb 2022), University of Notre Dame (Dec 2021), Southern Illinois University (Mar 2021).

Event generators

“Monte Carlo simulation in CMS”, LHC Physics Center, Physics Forum, July 28, 2022.
“Uncertainties in event generator predictions for LHC physics”, Snowmass Energy Frontier Precision QCD group, July 17, 2020.

High-Luminosity LHC and future colliders

“Monte Carlo simulations for Higgs factories”, FCC-ee Workshop, SLAC, December 19–20, 2024.
“The Higgs at the HL-LHC”, Snowmass Community Study, Seattle, July 2022.
“A Higgs aficionado's exploration of the High Luminosity-LHC”, Energy Frontier Workshop, Brown University, March 2022.

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

“Search for new physics in multi-particle final states with early Run 2 data at 13 TeV”, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, March 8, 2016.
“Search for SUSY in low transverse momenta oppositely charged di-lepton final states with parked data” — Northwestern University (Jul 29, 2015), University of Virginia (Jul 27, 2015).

Presentations selected by the CMS and ATLAS Conference Committees

Multiboson final states

“Electroweak physics with dedicated EFT probes”, LPC EFT workshop@JHU, Johns Hopkins University, June 1–2 (2026).
“Leveraging EFTs to look for new physics in the electroweak sector at the LHC”, Mitchell Conference, Texas A&M, May 27–30, 2026.
“Recent multiboson measurements”, LHC Electroweak Working Group Meeting, March 31.
“Summary of EFT analyses in top and standard model processes”, LHC EFT Working Group Meeting, December 1–3, 2025.
“Looking for new physics with multi-bosons”, Brandeis University, October 8–10, 2025.
“Single and multiple boson production at the LHC”, Stony Brook University, September 8–12, 2025.
“Searches for heavy objects with ATLAS and CMS”, Mitchell Conference, Texas A&M, May 13–16, 2025.
“Diboson/triboson production and polarization measurements on behalf of CMS and ATLAS”, QCD@LHC, Freiburg, October 7–11, 2024.
“Full run2 overview of EW multiboson production in CMS”, Toulouse, September 25–27, 2024.
“Multibosons at ATLAS and CMS”, Moriond Electroweak Interactions & Unified Theories, La Thuile, March 2024.
“Vector Boson Scattering processes at the LHC”, SM@LHC, Fermilab, July 10–13, 2023.
“Recent diboson and polarization measurements at CMS”, LHCP 2023, Belgrade, May 22–26, 2023.
“Multiboson measurements at CMS”, Phenomenology Symposium, Pittsburgh, May 9–11, 2022.
“Searches for new physics in multi-boson events using anomalous coupling and EFT approaches”, Multi-boson Interactions (MBI), Milan, August 23–26, 2021.
“Multiboson Measurements in CMS and ATLAS”, LHCP 2020, May 25–30, 2020.
“Usage of effective field theory and anomalous gauge coupling interpretation in ATLAS and CMS”, LPC workshop: Multibosons At The Energy Frontier, July 2019.
“Electroweak physics with multibosons at the CMS experiment”, plenary talk, ALPS, April 2019.
“Search for WWW production with the CMS Detector at 13 TeV”, APS April Meeting, 2019.
“Recent results for charged diboson channels (including aTGCs)”, MBI, Ann Arbor, August 28–29, 2018.

Event generators

“Minimum Bias and Underlying Event: review of measurements and MC tuning at CMS”, MPI@LHC, Lisbon, October 11–15, 2021.
“Event Generation: Negative Weights, CPU Performance and Multi Threading”, Offline and Computing Week, CERN, October 22, 2021.

Detector performance

“The HGCAL upgrade of the CMS detector for HL-LHC”, APS DPF Meeting, August 2021.
“Exploring the timing capabilities of the High Granularity Calorimeter”, APS April Meeting, 2019.
“The High Granularity Calorimeter for the HL-LHC”, US LHC Users Organization Meeting, Fermilab, November 2–3, 2017.

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

“Searches for new physics in dijet and multijet final states with CMS and ATLAS”, ICHEP 2016, Chicago, August 3–10, 2016.
“Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark by CMS”, US LHC Users Organization Meeting, UW-Madison, November 6–8, 2013.
“T to lepton+jets and multileptons”, LPC Workshop on Exotic Top Partners, September 26–27, 2013.
“Search for Exotic Top Partners at 8 TeV”, DPF 2013, UC Santa Cruz, August 8–13, 2013.
“Search for a heavy exotic partner of the top quark with charge 5/3”, APS April Meeting, 2012.
“Higgs Production through Top-prime decays at the LHC”, DPF 2011, Brown University, August 8–13, 2011.

Physics objects (b-tagging)

“Efficiency measurement of b-tagging algorithms developed by the CMS experiment”, DPF 2011, Brown University, August 8–13, 2011.
“Understanding of B-Tagging at CMS”, Implications of First LHC Data, joint Berkeley-MIT workshop, MIT, August 10–13, 2010.

Awards and fellowships

CMS Award for “inspirational work in the CMS Event Generators group”, June 2024.
University of California, Berkeley, Rising Star in Physics, 2023.
Recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2022–2024 (Humboldt Fellow at DESY, September 2022–August 2025).
Selected to deliver the inaugural Sievert Lectures (2022) at Northwestern University: eight talks for the general public on “Particle Physics after the discovery of the Higgs boson”.
LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher Award, 2019 and 2020.
Invited to join the US LHC Users Association delegation to Washington D.C. (March 2014, March 2018–2020) to advocate with the United States Congress for increased STEM funding.
PASI2012 “Exploring the Terascale and Beyond” travel grant, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
$10,000 travel grant from the LHC Physics Center at Fermilab.
Universities Research Association Fellowship at Fermilab, 2010–2011.
Institute Merit Scholarship for the entire M.Sc. program, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Grants

Co-PI on a Department of Energy grant, “Research in Physics” ($2.5M for 3 years), at Southern Methodist University.
Salary support from the USCMS operations budget ($41,436) to deploy GPU-based event generator workflows on High Performance Computing facilities.
Travel support to attend and represent the CMS Collaboration at the Moriond Electroweak Conference, 2024.
Eighteen months of salary support and travel award through the Humboldt Fellowship.
Early-career travel support for Snowmass 2022.
LHC Physics Center Guest and Visitor program funding (travel and lodging at Fermilab), 2017–2018.
American Physical Society travel grant, APS April Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Full academic scholarship at Brown University (2007–2015) for the Sc.M. and Ph.D. programs in Physics.

Teaching & mentorship

Teaching experience

PH7363, Fall 2025, SMU: particle detection and identification, with a focus on the intricate designs of modern detectors.
PH3306, Spring 2025–2026, SMU: laboratory-based course on fluid mechanics, optics, and electromagnetic phenomena.
Brown University, School of Professional Studies (Summers 2015, 2016, 2023): designed and taught a highly rated pre-college course on the discovery of the Higgs boson and its legacy ten years later.
Inaugural Sievert Prize Awardee, 2022: designed and delivered a set of eight hour-long public lectures at Northwestern University.
Hands-On Tutorial, Fermilab: lead facilitator of the Generator Hands-On Tutorial at the LHC Physics Center (July 2019, 2020, September 2023); facilitator (June 2018).
CMS Data Analysis School (DAS), Fermilab (January 2018–2019, 2021): lead facilitator of the “Generators” exercise; co-facilitator of the “Searches using boosted topologies” exercise.
Brown University (Fall 2007–Spring 2008): teaching assistant, undergraduate physics laboratories.

Mentorship

Invited presentation on “Early Career Issues in Particle Physics” at the Lepton Photon Conference, August 2025.
Invited presentation on the “Academic Job Landscape” at the APS Conference for Graduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics, Washington DC, August 2024.
Yulun Miao (Northwestern graduate student, January 2020–present): triboson production and EFT interpretation in identically charged leptonic final states; HGCAL detector performance studies.
Qilong Guo (Peking University graduate student, December 2020–present): triboson production and EFT interpretation in a single leptonic final state.
Lacey Rainbolt (Northwestern undergraduate, Summer 2018): Monte Carlo generation and CMS software; now a graduate student at the University of Chicago.
Jared Max Lafer (Brown undergraduate, Summer 2010): muon trigger efficiency and ROOT analysis; now a Lead AI Research Scientist in New York.

Research

Current activities (ATLAS & CMS)

Interactive detector explorers

Research group

What is the group up to?

Work in preparation

Leadership

Convenerships

Editorial roles

Professional service

Professional memberships

Community planning: Snowmass, P5, and the European Strategy

Reviews

Publications with significant contribution

Event generators

Exploration of multiboson final states

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

Physics objects (b-tagging)

Detector performance

Phenomenological studies and statistical analyses

Talks

Multiboson final states and effective field theories

Event generators

High-Luminosity LHC and future colliders

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

Multiboson final states

Event generators

Detector performance

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

Physics objects (b-tagging)

Awards and fellowships

Grants

Teaching & mentorship

Teaching experience

Mentorship

Outreach

In the news

Background

Employment

Education

Computing