Faculty
Jesse Liu, Assistant Professor
Interests: ATLAS, tau-lepton electromagnetic dipoles, photon collisions, cosmic-ray physics, Inner Tracker (ITk) upgrade, silicon detectors.
Publications: INSPIRE
Group web page
Interests: ATLAS, tau-lepton electromagnetic dipoles, photon collisions, cosmic-ray physics, Inner Tracker (ITk) upgrade, silicon detectors.
Publications: INSPIRE
Group web page
Allen I. Mincer, Professor
Interests: ATLAS: Supersymmetry searches, MissingET triggers; Particle astrophysics.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Interests: ATLAS: Supersymmetry searches, MissingET triggers; Particle astrophysics.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Visiting Scholar
Rostislav Konoplich, Professor of Physics at Manhattan College
Interests: ATLAS; Higgs physics, Supersymmetry searches and measurements; Elementary particle phenomenology; astrophysics.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Interests: ATLAS; Higgs physics, Supersymmetry searches and measurements; Elementary particle phenomenology; astrophysics.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Postdoctoral Research Scientists and Associates
Sebastian Rutherford Colmenares, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS, tau-lepton physics, new physics searches, data science, machine learning, ITk upgrades
Publications: INSPIRE
Interests: ATLAS, tau-lepton physics, new physics searches, data science, machine learning, ITk upgrades
Publications: INSPIRE
Graduate Students
Amelia Stevens, Graduate Research Assistant with Jesse Liu
Interests: ATLAS Inner Tracker strip module testing and quality control
Interests: ATLAS Inner Tracker strip module testing and quality control
Former Graduate Students
Mukesh Ghimire
Interests: MilliQan
Thesis: "milliQan: A Search for Millicharged Particles and the Sexaquark at the LHC", 2023
Went on to: Data Scientist at Oklahoma City Thunder
Interests: MilliQan
Thesis: "milliQan: A Search for Millicharged Particles and the Sexaquark at the LHC", 2023
Went on to: Data Scientist at Oklahoma City Thunder
Colleen Treado
Interests: SUSY Searches (emerging jets)
Thesis: "A Search for Emerging Jets at 13 TeV at ATLAS Run 2", 2020
LinkedIn
Went on to: Researcher and Analyst | Problem Solver
Interests: SUSY Searches (emerging jets)
Thesis: "A Search for Emerging Jets at 13 TeV at ATLAS Run 2", 2020
Went on to: Researcher and Analyst | Problem Solver
Lukas Heinrich
Interests: ATLAS, SUSY searches, Recast and analysis preservation, trigger and analysis software
Thesis: "Searches for Supersymmetry, RECAST, and Contributions to Computational High Energy Physics", 2019
github
Twitter
Personal website
Went on to: CERN Fellow, then Professor for Data Science for Physics, Technical University Munich
Interests: ATLAS, SUSY searches, Recast and analysis preservation, trigger and analysis software
Thesis: "Searches for Supersymmetry, RECAST, and Contributions to Computational High Energy Physics", 2019
github
Personal website
Went on to: CERN Fellow, then Professor for Data Science for Physics, Technical University Munich
Shahab Kohani
Interests: tracking detectors.
Thesis: "3D Trench Detectors for Charged Particle Tracking and Photon Science Applications", 2018
Went on to: postdoc at the University of Hawaii
Interests: tracking detectors.
Thesis: "3D Trench Detectors for Charged Particle Tracking and Photon Science Applications", 2018
Went on to: postdoc at the University of Hawaii
Karthik Krishnaiyengar
Interests: ATLAS, SUSY searches.
Thesis: "Search for Higgs boson decays to neutralinos and gravitinos using the ATLAS detector", 2015
Went on to: Chase bank
Interests: ATLAS, SUSY searches.
Thesis: "Search for Higgs boson decays to neutralinos and gravitinos using the ATLAS detector", 2015
Went on to: Chase bank
Ricardo Neves
Interests: ATLAS, SUSY Searches, trigger.
Thesis: "Study of the Transverse Energy Sum Triggers and Leptonic Background Reduction in Searches for Supersymmetry in Fully Hadronic Multijet Events at the ATLAS Experiment”, 2015
Went on to: Data Scientist at KPMG
Interests: ATLAS, SUSY Searches, trigger.
Thesis: "Study of the Transverse Energy Sum Triggers and Leptonic Background Reduction in Searches for Supersymmetry in Fully Hadronic Multijet Events at the ATLAS Experiment”, 2015
Went on to: Data Scientist at KPMG
Sven Kreiss
Interests: ATLAS, Higgs searches, top physics, statistical tools.
personal page
Thesis: "Higgs Boson Discovery and First Property Measurements with the H -> ZZ -> 4l Channel and the Combination", 2014
Went on to: data scientist at Wild Card, then Sidewalk Labs, then postdoc at EPFL, now Facebook Reality Labs
Twitter
Interests: ATLAS, Higgs searches, top physics, statistical tools.
personal page
Thesis: "Higgs Boson Discovery and First Property Measurements with the H -> ZZ -> 4l Channel and the Combination", 2014
Went on to: data scientist at Wild Card, then Sidewalk Labs, then postdoc at EPFL, now Facebook Reality Labs
James Beacham
Interests: ATLAS: Higgs-related searches, APEX: light gauge boson searches, archival ALEPH analyses
personal page
Thesis: "Exotic Higgs, Rare Z, and a Dark Photon: Searching for New Physics at the LHC, LEP, and Jefferson Lab", 2014.
Went on to: post doc in ATLAS group at The Ohio State University, then Duke
Twitter
Interests: ATLAS: Higgs-related searches, APEX: light gauge boson searches, archival ALEPH analyses
personal page
Thesis: "Exotic Higgs, Rare Z, and a Dark Photon: Searching for New Physics at the LHC, LEP, and Jefferson Lab", 2014.
Went on to: post doc in ATLAS group at The Ohio State University, then Duke
Loek Hooft van Huysduynen
Interests: ATLAS, lepton jets, top physics.
Thesis: "Lepton Jets in the ATLAS Experiment", 2014.
Went on to: Data Scientist at Tapad
LinkedIn
Interests: ATLAS, lepton jets, top physics.
Thesis: "Lepton Jets in the ATLAS Experiment", 2014.
Went on to: Data Scientist at Tapad
Grant Christopher
Thesis: "Physics from the Very-High Energy Cosmic-Ray Shadows of the Moon and Sun with Milagro", Milagro, 2011
Went on to: post doc at Brown University; then International Centre for Security Analysis King's College, London
Thesis: "Physics from the Very-High Energy Cosmic-Ray Shadows of the Moon and Sun with Milagro", Milagro, 2011
Went on to: post doc at Brown University; then International Centre for Security Analysis King's College, London
Long Zhao
Thesis: "A Global Fitting Method to Improve Missing Transverse Energy by Hadronic Energy Scale Correction", ATLAS, 2011
Went on to: Goldman Sachs special situation group
Thesis: "A Global Fitting Method to Improve Missing Transverse Energy by Hadronic Energy Scale Correction", ATLAS, 2011
Went on to: Goldman Sachs special situation group
Brian Kolterman
Thesis: "Observation of the Large Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy at TeV Energies with the Milagro Detector," 2008.
Went on to: Theoretical neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thesis: "Observation of the Large Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy at TeV Energies with the Milagro Detector," 2008.
Went on to: Theoretical neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Roman Fleysher
Thesis: "Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Galactic Plane with Milagro," 2003.
Went on to: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Thesis: "Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Galactic Plane with Milagro," 2003.
Went on to: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lazar Fleysher
Thesis: "Search for Relic Neutralinos with Milagro," 2003.
Went on to: Associate Scientist, Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Thesis: "Search for Relic Neutralinos with Milagro," 2003.
Went on to: Associate Scientist, Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Jie Yang
Thesis: "Measurement of the Width of the W boson in proton - antiproton collisions ats =1.8 TeV," 1995.
Thesis: "Measurement of the Width of the W boson in proton - antiproton collisions at
Qiang Zhu
Thesis: "Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Proton - Antiproton Collisions ats =1.8 TeV," 1994.
Thesis: "Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Proton - Antiproton Collisions at
Jonathan Kotcher
Thesis: "Response of the D0 Calorimeter Detector to Cosmic Ray Muons," 1992.
Thesis: "Response of the D0 Calorimeter Detector to Cosmic Ray Muons," 1992.
Former Postdoctoral Research Scientists and Associates
Yiming (Ablet) Abulaiti, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS, supersymmetric top quark searches (cMSSM and pMSSM models), new heavy resonance searches in the Exotics group, FELIX phase-1 upgrade, MissingET triggers (operations and phase-2 upgrades). Machine Learning for HEP.
Publications: INSPIRE | ORCID
Interests: ATLAS, supersymmetric top quark searches (cMSSM and pMSSM models), new heavy resonance searches in the Exotics group, FELIX phase-1 upgrade, MissingET triggers (operations and phase-2 upgrades). Machine Learning for HEP.
Publications: INSPIRE | ORCID
Johann Brehmer, Research Scientist
Interests: Effective Field Theory, Likelihood-free Inference, Machine Learning
Publications: INSPIRE | Google Scholar
| ORCID : 0000-0003-3344-4209
personal website | github
Went on to: Research Scientist at Qualcomm AI Research
Interests: Effective Field Theory, Likelihood-free Inference, Machine Learning
Publications: INSPIRE | Google Scholar
| ORCID : 0000-0003-3344-4209
personal website | github
Went on to: Research Scientist at Qualcomm AI Research
Christopher Musso , Staff
Interests: ATLAS: Instrumentation and LHC upgrade.
Went on to: Staff Member at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Interests: ATLAS: Instrumentation and LHC upgrade.
Went on to: Staff Member at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Gilles Louppe, Research Scientist and Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow
Interests: Machine learning, likelihood free inference, scientific software.
Publications: Google Scholar | ORCID
Personal homepage
Twitter github
"Measurements and Searches for New Physics Using Top Quarks at the LHC" Went on to: Associate Professor in artificial intelligence and deep learning at the University of Liège, Belgium
Interests: Machine learning, likelihood free inference, scientific software.
Publications: Google Scholar | ORCID
Personal homepage
Twitter github
"Measurements and Searches for New Physics Using Top Quarks at the LHC" Went on to: Associate Professor in artificial intelligence and deep learning at the University of Liège, Belgium
Attila Krasznahorkay, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS: Top physics, Trigger, Analysis Software.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS
Went on to: CERN Fellow
Interests: ATLAS: Top physics, Trigger, Analysis Software.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS
Went on to: CERN Fellow
Diego Casadei, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS, Supersymmetry searches, astrophysics, statistical methods for particle physics, MissingET triggers.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Interests: ATLAS, Supersymmetry searches, astrophysics, statistical methods for particle physics, MissingET triggers.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS
Went on to: FHNW, School of Engineering and UCL, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Akira Shibata, Research Scientist
Rostislav Konoplich
Alexander Toropin, Research Scientist
Rashid Djilkibaev
James Kourlas
Emeritus Faculty
Peter Nemethy, Emeritus Professor
Interests: ATLAS: Supersymmetry searches, MissingET triggers; MILAGRO.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Interests: ATLAS: Supersymmetry searches, MissingET triggers; MILAGRO.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
John Sculli, Emeritus Professor
Went on to: retire in style
Went on to: retire in style
Former Faculty
Kyle Cranmer, Professor of Physics, Affiliate of Center for Data Science, NYU Physics Faculty 2007-2022
Interests: ATLAS, Higgs searches, statistical methods for particle physics, improved methods for publishing, data preservation, light gauge boson searches, MissingET triggers.
Personal homepage
Went on to: Director of Data Science Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Interests: ATLAS, Higgs searches, statistical methods for particle physics, improved methods for publishing, data preservation, light gauge boson searches, MissingET triggers.
Personal homepage
Went on to: Director of Data Science Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison
James Christenson, joined NYU Physics Faculty 1972
Founder of the modern NYU Experimental Particle Physics Group at Washington Square campus.
Photo extracted from talk by J.W. Cronin at Flavor Physics & CP Violation, Marseille, France June 29, 2014, likely from Proceedings of "CP Violations in Particle Physics and Astrophysics: 25th Anniversary of the CP Violation Discovery," Blois, France, May 22-26, 1989, ed. J. Tran Thanh Van, Editions Erontiéres (1990).
Founder of the modern NYU Experimental Particle Physics Group at Washington Square campus.
Photo extracted from talk by J.W. Cronin at Flavor Physics & CP Violation, Marseille, France June 29, 2014, likely from Proceedings of "CP Violations in Particle Physics and Astrophysics: 25th Anniversary of the CP Violation Discovery," Blois, France, May 22-26, 1989, ed. J. Tran Thanh Van, Editions Erontiéres (1990).
Leona Woods (1919-1986), NYU Physics Faculty 1960-1966
Initiated laboratory high energy physics research program at NYU into strong interactions to study baryon, meson and hyperon physics using bubble chamber analysis.
Photo in public domain by Argonne National Laboratory
American Physical Society feature
National Women's History Museum biography by Kelly Spring
Initiated laboratory high energy physics research program at NYU into strong interactions to study baryon, meson and hyperon physics using bubble chamber analysis.
Photo in public domain by Argonne National Laboratory
American Physical Society feature
National Women's History Museum biography by Kelly Spring
Former Affiliated Graduate Students and Postdocs
Taoli Cheng,
Postdoc at MILA with Aaron Courville co-advised by Kyle Cranmer and ATLAS Analysis Consultant Expert (ACE)
Interests: Particle Physics, jet physics, searches for new physics, machine learning
github Personal Website
Went on to: Senior Research Scientist, Bosch Research
Interests: Particle Physics, jet physics, searches for new physics, machine learning
github Personal Website
Went on to: Senior Research Scientist, Bosch Research
Michael Albergo, PhD in Data Science
Interests: lattice field theory, quantum information, machine learning, tensor networks
github
Twitter Personal Website
Went on to: Junior Fellow, Harvard University and IAFAI Fellow, MIT
Interests: lattice field theory, quantum information, machine learning, tensor networks
github
Twitter Personal Website
Went on to: Junior Fellow, Harvard University and IAFAI Fellow, MIT
Irina Espejo Morales, PhD in Data Science
Interests: Data Science, likelihood-free inference, reusable workflows, automated decision making
github
Went on to: Postdoc, Polymathic AI
Interests: Data Science, likelihood-free inference, reusable workflows, automated decision making
github
Went on to: Postdoc, Polymathic AI
Swapneel Mehta, PhD in Data Science
Interests: Data Science, causal inference, probabilistic programming
github
Personal Website
Went on to: Postdoc, Boston University and MIT
Interests: Data Science, causal inference, probabilistic programming
github
Personal Website
Went on to: Postdoc, Boston University and MIT
Lily Zhang, PhD in Data Science
Interests: Data Science, statistical inference, machine learning for health care and science
Personal Website
Article
Went on to: Researcher, Google DeepMind
Interests: Data Science, statistical inference, machine learning for health care and science
Personal Website
Article
Went on to: Researcher, Google DeepMind