I am a professor of physics at University of Michigan, working on the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC. I previously worked on the D0 experiment at the Fermilab's Tevatron collider.
I work with my students, postdocs, and engineers on SM and Higgs measurements, new physics searches, and upgrades of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. We have worked on various physics analyses including studies with vector boson scattering (VBS), triboson, diboson, and H->ZZ processes. We designed a fast-speed serializer ASIC for the new small wheel (NSW) small-strip thin gap chamber (sTGC) detector for the ATLAS Phase-I upgrade. We also designed a time-to-digital converter ASIC for the ATLAS Phase-II upgrade. We performed detector and electronics integration and commissioning for the NSW sTGC detector. We are also responsible for the operation of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector and NSW sTGC frontend electronics.
During my time with the D0 experiment, my research focused on electroweak physics, particularly the production and properties of W and Z bosons. I played an important role in several high-precision electroweak measurements, including the W boson mass, direct and indirect measurements of the W boson decay width, W and Z boson inclusive and differential cross sections, W boson charge asymmetry, Z/gamma* boson forward-backward charge asymmetry and determination of the weak mixing angle. I also worked on the SM Higgs boson search in the H->gamma gamma and ZH -> llbb searches, as well as QCD differential cross section measurements involving two-photon final states.
I am the Principle Investigator for the NSF-supported UM-CERN summer REU (research experience for undergraduates) and HST (high school teachers) program. Each year we send 15 undergraduate students and 8 high school teachers selected nationalwide to work and study at CERN for a few weeks.
I received the DOE early career award, US ATLAS fellow, CERN scientific associate, Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, Alvin Tollestrup award for outstanding postdoctoral research at Fermilab from Universities Research Association, and the Martin and Beate Block award from the Aspen Center for Physics. I am also a fellow of the American Physical Society.