Postdoctoral Scholar
UC San Diego
Jan 2009 - Jan 2013 (4 years 1 month)
Leading author in the observation of the Higgs boson, a new fundamental particle, which is produced in one out of every 10^12 proton-proton collisions in the detector (650+ citations).
Lead small teams to develop innovative data reduction workflows to perform incremental analysis of multi petabyte datasets in a collaborative environment. Used by 25+ scientists to produce multiple world-leading publications, including world-first precision measurements of WW (90+ citations) and top quark (100+ citations) production.
Presented results as a plenary speaker at international conferences (2) to several hundred participants, and 75+ times to experts within the CMS collaboration. Author of 150+ scientific publications.