Research
Research Topics
CMS Hadronic Calorimeter related:
- Hadronic calorimeter test beam in 2009 summer.
- Anomalous noise in CMS hadronic calorimeter.
Physics research topics:
- Measurement of the vector boson with associated jet production cross section as a function of jet multiplicity using the CMS detector at the LHC.
- Search for third generation leptoquarks in the bb̅νν̅ channel using the CMS detector at the LHC.
- Measurement of properties of the newly-discovered boson at around 125 GeV/c2 using a fully differential (12 dimensional) likelihood at detector level.
- Probing properties of quark gluon plasma (QGP) using jet substructure in heavy ion collisions.
- Bayesian analysis on published heavy ion results to learn fundamental parameters of the quark gluon plasma
- Jet measurements with the archived e+e- ALEPH LEP data
Leadership
High energy / heavy ion physics
- Sep 2022 - Current: CMS Heavy Ion High pT physics analysis subgroup leader
- Sep 2021 - Aug 2023: LHC HI Working Group co-convener
- Sep 2019 - Aug 2021: CMS Heavy Ion physics analysis group convener
- Feb 2018 - Aug 2019: CMS jet energy corrections and resolutions group convener
- Oct 2017 - Jun 2023: CMS heavy ion high level trigger coordinator
- Sep 2017 - Aug 2019, Sep 2021 - Aug 2023: CMS heavy ion jet reconstruction contact
- Jan 2013 - Dec 2014: Leading the hadronic calorimeter noise group in CMS experiment at the LHC
Others
- Sep 2022 - Aug 2024: CMS Diversity Office Member
Organization
Conferences
- Organizer of the 13th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2026) (May 31 - Jun 5), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Link
- Local organizing committee, 8th International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Initial Stages 2025), Taipei, Taiwan
Seminars / workshop / school
- Organizer of the JETSCAPE Collaboration Meeting 2024 (Jul 28 - Jul 30), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Link
- Organizer of the JETSCAPE online Summer School 2023 (Jul 17 - Jul 28) Link
- Primary organizer of the JETSCAPE online Summer School 2021 (Jul 19 - Jul 30) Link
- Organizer of the HTE seminar (Heavy-ion Theory-Experiment Seminar) Link
Experience
High energy / heavy ion physics
- Aug 2023 - Current: Vanderbilt high energy nuclear physics group
- Jan 2019 - Jul 2023: MIT heavy ion group
- Feb 2019 - Current: JETSCAPE collaboration
- Aug 2016 - Dec 2018: CERN research fellow
- Summer 2009 - Dec 2015: Participate in CMS experiment with the high energy group at Caltech
- Spring 2006 - Spring 2008: Participate in CMS experiment with the heavy ion group in MIT
Computer science
- Summer 2005: Participated in research on physics-based rendering (light-tracing) in CSAIL (Computer science and artificial intelligen lab) in MIT.
- Fall 1999 - Spring 2003: Research on applications of chaotic systems as pseudo random number generators and in encryption/decryption.