Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR
March 2021
Graduated with Honors Roll
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas
May 2014
North Lake Community College
Irving, Texas
August 2012
DUNE and MINERvA Flux Studies and a Measurement of the Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic Antineutrino Scattering Cross-sections with <Ev>~ 6 GeV on a CH Target.
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1859505
Worked as an undergraduate research associate. Duties include development and characterization of detector instruments measuring the energy of the hadrons. Maintenance of the working lab, monthly radiation test in the lab, teaching new research students to work with the lab instruments, use and development of analysis tools and co-ordinate with the (then) LBNE (now LBNF) beam simulation group to develop the (then) LBNE beam-line.
Worked as a Fermilab Research Fellow in the Beam Simulation Group for optimization of neutrino beam-line for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (2012-2014).
Beam Simulation Group for Optimization of Neutrino Beam-line (focusing Horns) for DUNE. Simulation of focusing of pions through different horn designs to quantify the focusing efficiency of the horns. Preliminary studies on possibility of Beam Dump experiment with LBNF beam line. (05/2014-09/2015, Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)
Package to Predict Flux (PPFX) project to modify the package and make it compatible in DUNE beam simulation infrastructure. First reliable estimate of neutrino flux with hadron production uncertainties.
(2014-2021)
Development of flux fitting package to fix the data Monte Carlo distribution in neutrino spectra for NuMI Medium Energy beam. Later on expanded to find the new detector efficiency scale (2016-2019).
Worked on the Development of parallel computing framework development for ROOT (a data analysis package) as a High Energy Physics Center of Computational Excellence Fellow (2018 August- 2018 September) at Argonne National Lab under Taylor Childers. This work was later adopted by ROOT and can be found here. Results of the development and testing of the code is given here. The CMS experiment uses this method to merge their ROOT files utilizing the advantages of High Performance Computers.
Muon monitors events to explore the possibility of the finding correlations between muon monitor signal and NoVA Near Detector neutrino flux for the spectroscopy of NuMI neutrino flux and possible beam-line misalignments (03/01/2019-04/2021).
Research and development of the HPC friendly softwares for the future experiments like the HL-LHC era ATLAS and DUNE as a postdoc in HEP-CCE, Argonne National lab. Research and development of the experimental data in different formats that can be easily deployed in HPC’s and use the HPC resources efficiently (April 2021 to Present).
I was one of the early contributors to the MINERvA’s data preservation effort. This effort is to ensure that the MINERvA data will be reusable long after MINERvA’s lifetime. The effort includes managing the physics variables that will be used in various neutrino analyses, a unified analysis toolkit with a centralized systematics framework to do all kind of measurements and a proper documentation of methods and informations to use the data and the software package. I initiated the adoption of this software package for the CCQENu framework, a common framework used by MINERvA analysts doing Charged Current interaction related analysis. This work has been continued and extensively improved by the OSU physics team in the MINERvA and other CCQENu analysts.
I was maintaining the g4lbnf software which is the simulation software to estimate the neutrino flux and flux related information in the LBNF beam-line until 2022. I also maintained the PPFX software which is used to estimate the hadron production uncertainties in the DUNE fluxes and other NuMI experiments like NOvA and MINERvA. My work mostly included making sure that the beamline information is updated correctly in the package and correct any mismatch in the information both in the PPFX and the g4lbnf software.
Programming Skill
C++, Python and ROOT with over nine years of working experience on C++ and ROOT
Deployment of Parallelization of IO processes in Exa-scale computing related projects
Simulation Skill
Over 3 year of working experience with simulation tools like GEANT4. Performed several task like implementation of pion analysis algorithm in DUNE beamline, beam optimization, modification of analysis packages to port from one experiment framework to another, optimization of Muon Monitor simulation code to reduce computing time for the Fermilab Muon Monitor Group
Analytical Skill
Package to Fit the data mc sample with respect to neutrino flux parameters and estimation of its effect on systematics for NuMI medium energy beam
Analysis of anti-neutrino nucleon interaction with MINERvA’s high statistics data to extend the measurement to previously unexplored neutrino interaction kinematic regions
Teaching/ Mentoring Skill
Worked as a Teaching Assistant in Ph104, An Introductory Level Astronomy class for over two years
Helped new researchers in MINERvA and DUNE experiments to use the computing/analytic toolkits
Wrote manual instructions on installing/running software and running basic analyses
Worked as a TA in the USPAS (United States Particle Accelerator School) 2019 in Knoxville, TN. I helped to develop the computational part of the neutrino beamline class. I also helped students with their assignments from the lecture series.
Laboratory Director's Discretionary Award (LDRD) to investigate "The Use of Intelligent and Domain Specific Compression Algorithms in High Energy Physics Experiment Data".
(https://www.anl.gov/pse/article/nine-pse-researchers-receive-2024-ldrd-seed-funding)
NSF grant “Simulation and Design Optimization of Neutrino Beams”, NSF 1607241, was funded to support my work related on DUNE/MINERvA beamline systematics and optimization work.
(https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1607241)
Graduate Research Award for Outstanding work in Neutrino Physics, Oregon State University, 2020-2021.
Member of the group that got second position on a DUNE related project for INSS 2019 (International Neutrino Summer School 2019). Our project was about estimating the cost to magnetize the DUNE far detector.
James L. Horwitz Physics Scholarship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2014.
Research Activity Scholarship for the research being conducted on “Investigation of Electric Discharge on GEM-DHCAL Prototype”, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013.
Phi Theta Kappa, Northlake Chapter, Northlake College, 2011.
Outstanding Freshman English Composition Award, Cameron University 2009.
● https://github.com/physnerds/TMPI-Beta
○ MPI Based ROOT::TFile to parallelize I/O operations on HEP data
● https://github.com/physnerds/h5demos
○ Toy code to test the HDF5 implemented collective I/O for HEP data
● https://github.com/hep-cce2/root_serialization/tree/master
○ Experiment agnostic test framework to study I/O operations on HEP data
● https://github.com/physnerds/gpu-data-models.git
○ Test Framework for the HPC friendly data model for the DUNE Raw Data/MC
Presentation on “Investigation of Electric Discharge on GEM DHCAL Prototype” for Joint Spring 2013 Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS and AAPT and Zone 13 of the SPS Volume 58, Number 3. (Texas).
Poster on “Beam Simulations on Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment” for XXVI International Conference for Neutrino Physics and AstroPhysics, Boston, MA, 2014.
Presentation on Neutrino Flux Prediction in DUNE, Division of Particle Physics, 2017, Fermilab and NuINT 17, Toronto Canada.
Poster on Near and Far Detector Neutrino Spectra Correlations for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, International Conference on High Energy Physics 2016 and DUNE Collaboration meeting 2015 (Chicago,IL).
Presentation on NuMI and DUNE Flux Predictions on NBI 2019 (Neutrino Beam Instrumentation) (Fermilab, IL).
Presentation on Muon Neutrino CCQELike in MINERvA on DPF 2019 (Boston, MA).
Poster Presentation on High Statistics Measurements on Anti Muon Neutrino CCQELike Interactions in CH Target in MINERvA, Neutrino 2020 (Chicago,IL).
Presentation on Review of MINERvA’s Medium Energy Neutrino Physics Program, DNP 2020 (Virtual) .
Poster Presentation on Using Neutrino Scattering events with Low Hadronic Recoil to Understand the Neutrino Flux and Detecor Energy Scale, 28th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN 2021)
Talk on the Data Storage for HEP experiments in the Era of HPC, Snowmass Computational Frontier Topical Group (2022).[https://indico.fnal.gov/event/53251/]
Wine and Cheese Seminar on High Statistics Quasielastic Antineutrino Scattering at MINERvA, Fermilab (2023). [https://indico.fnal.gov/event/58239/]
Talk on Using parallel I/O libraries for managing HEP experimental Data, CHEP 2023 (Norfolk, VA).[https://indico.jlab.org/event/459/contributions/11807/]
Presentation on RNTuple Format and Feature Assessment, ROOT+HEP-CCE IOS Workshop 2023 (CERN). [https://indico.cern.ch/event/1303499/#1-workshop-introduction]
Participated the Training Program "Argonne Training Program on Exascale Computing", 2023 (St. Charles, IL). [https://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/]
Presentation on HPC Friendly HEP data model and RNTuple in HEP-CCE, ACAT 2024, Stony Brook, NY. [https://indico.cern.ch/event/1330797/contributions/5796609/]
Principal Investigator of the Argonne LDRD seed Project Intelligent Lossy Compression of the DUNE Raw Data, June 2024.
Project member of the ALCF GPU-Hackathon project on SoA Design of the DUNE Raw Data, May, 2024.
Amit Bashyal, Ben Messerly, Dipak Rimal et.al., “Use of Neutrino Scattering Events with Low Hadronic Recoil to Inform Neutrino Flux and Detector Energy Scale” , Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 16, August 2021.
Amit Bashyal et.al., “Charge Current Quasielastic-like muon anti-neutrino nucleon scattering in the CH target at 6 GeV Neutrino Energy on a Hydrocarbon Target”, Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 3, 032018.
Amit Bashyal et. al., "Data Storage for HEP Experiments in the Era of High-Performance Computing", 2022 Snowmass Summer Study, arXiv:2203.07885.
Amit Bashyal et. al., CHEP Proceeding on "Using parallel I/O libraries for managing HEP experimental Data" (submitted), CHEP 2023.
LBNE Collaboration, et al. “The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe.” ArXiv:1307.7335 [Hep-Ex, Physics:Hep-Ph, Physics:Physics], Apr. 2014. arXiv.org.
DUNE Collaboration ,"Long-baseline neutrino facility (LBNF) and deep underground neutrino experiment (DUNE) conceptual design report, volume 4 the DUNE detectors at LBNF",arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02984,2016
Alion, T., et al. “Experiment Simulation Configurations Used in DUNE CDR.” ArXiv:1606.09550 [Hep-Ex, Physics:Hep-Ph, Physics:Physics], June 2016. arXiv.org.
C. Patrick et al. “Measurement of the Muon Antineutrino Double-Differential Cross Section Quasielastic-like Scattering on Hydrocarbon at 3.5GeV”, Phys. Rev. D, 97(5):052002, 2018.
D. Ruterbories et al., “Measurement of quasielastic-like neutrino scattering at on a hydrocarbon target”, Phys. Rev. D 99, 012004, 2019.
M.F Carniero et al., “High Statistics Measurement of Neutrino Quasielastic-like scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target”, Phys. Review Letter 124.121801, 2020.
"Le, T; Akbar, F; Aliaga, L; Andrade, DA; Ascencio, MV; Bashyal, A; Bercellie, A; Betancourt, M; Bodek, A; Bonilla, JL; ",Measurement of ν¯ μ charged-current single π− production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA,Physical Review D,100,5,052008,2019,American Physical Society
DUNE Collaboration, “Experiment Simulation Configurations Approximating DUNE TDR”, arXiV:2103.04797
abashyal@anl.gov; amitbashyal@gmail.com