The NYU Experimental Particle Physics Group

Faculty

Andy Haas, Associate Professor
Interests: ATLAS, SUSY / Exotic searches (lepton-jets, new long-lived particles, etc.), Simulation software, Data acquisition, LAr HL-LHC Back-end electronics upgrade, milliQan (co-leader).
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN


Jesse Liu, Assistant Professor starting early 2025.


Allen I. Mincer, Professor
Interests: ATLAS: Supersymmetry searches, MissingET triggers; MILAGRO.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN


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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

Research Scientists and Research Associates

Patrick Rieck, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS, BSM Physics, RECAST, Data Science.
Publications: INSPIRE | ORCID

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

Graduate Students

Zubair Bhatti
Interests: Particle Physics, searches for new physics, RECAST
github

Matthew Drnevich
Interests: Physics, jet physics, machine learning
github

Edison Weik
Interests: Particle Physics, searches for new physics, machine learning
github

Former Graduate Students

Mukesh Ghimire
Interests: MilliQan
Thesis: "milliQan: A Search for Millicharged Particles and the Sexaquark at the LHC", 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Herbert Lewis
Interests: ATLAS, Higgs searches, top physics.
Thesis: "Measurements and Searches for New Physics Using Top Quarks at the LHC", 2013
Went on to: data scientist at LendUp, then Google
Twitter

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

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

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

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

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

Jie Yang
Thesis: "Measurement of the Width of the W boson in proton - antiproton collisions at s=1.8 TeV," 1995.

Qiang Zhu
Thesis: "Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Proton - Antiproton Collisions at s=1.8 TeV," 1994.

Jonathan Kotcher
Thesis: "Response of the D0 Calorimeter Detector to Cosmic Ray Muons," 1992.

Former Research Scientists and Research Associates

Alexander Held, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS & IRIS-HEP: Higgs Physics, Top Physics, Statistics, Analysis Software, Machine Learning.
Publications: INSPIRE
github
Went on to: Postdoc at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Sebastian Macaluso, Research Scientist
Interests: IRIS-HEP: Machine Learning, Jet Physics.
Publications: INSPIRE
github
Went on to: Senior Reasearcher at Telefonica Research

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

Manfredi Ronzani, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS: Supersymmetry, exotics, MET trigger.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS
LinkedIn
Went on to: Data Analytics and Quality Specialist | Data Scientist at Sisal Group

Leonora Vesterbacka, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS: Physics Modelling, Machine Learning, Analysis Preservation.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN

github | LinkedIn
Went on to: Data Scientist at Vinnova

Christopher Musso , Staff
Interests: ATLAS: Instrumentation and LHC upgrade.

Went on to: Staff Member at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Cyril Becot, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS, Higgs precision measurements, searches.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS

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

Benjamin Kaplan, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS, multileptons, supersymmetry searches.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS

Catrin Bernius, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS, multileptons, supersymmetry searches.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS
Went on to: Computing Professional at SLAC

Kirill Prokofiev, Research Scientist
Interests: ATLAS: Higgs physics, tracking, vertexing, luminosity measurements.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN
Presentations: ATLAS
Went on to: Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Attila Krasznahorkay, Research Scientist
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

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 Popp, Research Scientist

James Kourlas

Emeritus Faculty

Peter Nemethy, Emeritus Professor
Interests: ATLAS: Supersymmetry searches, MissingET triggers; MILAGRO.
Publications: INSPIRE | CERN

John Sculli, Emeritus Professor
Went on to: retire in style

Former Faculty

Kyle Cranmer, Professor UW-Madison
Interests: ATLAS, Higgs searches, statistical methods for particle physics, improved methods for publishing, data preservation, light gauge boson searches, MissingET triggers.
Personal homepage

James Christenson
Founder of the NYU Experimental Particle Physics Group.

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

Former Affiliated Graduate Students (non-ATLAS)

Michael Albergo
Interests: lattice field theory, quantum information, machine learning, tensor networks
github
Twitter Personal Website

Irina Espejo Morales
Interests: Data Science, likelihood-free inference, reusable workflows, automated decision making
github

Swapneel Mehta
Interests: Data Science, causal inference, probabilistic programming
github
Personal Website

Lily Zhang
Interests: Data Science, statistical inference, machine learning for health care and science
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