About Me

I am a professor at the University of Illinois. My research is highly interdisciplinary at the intersection of particle physics, AI/ML, and quantum, aiming to understand the universe at its fundamental level and to accelerate scientific discovery through innovation.

Education

  • PhD in Physics

    University of Pennsylvania

    1994-09-01 – 2001-06-01

  • Bachelor of Science in Physics

    Kutztown University

    1990-09-01 – 1994-06-01

Interests

  • High Energy Physics
  • Particle Astrophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Quantum Machine Learning
  • Microelectronics
  • Novel Compute Paradigms
Research Areas
Featured Publications
Electroweak diboson production in association with a high-mass dijet system in semileptonic final states from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector. featured image

Observation of vector boson scattering

This paper reports the observation of electroweak diboson ($WW/WZ/ZZ$) production in association with a high-mass dijet system, in which final states with one boson decaying …

Atlas Collaboration
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Evidential DL for Uncertainties and Anomaly Detection

Current methods commonly used for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in deep learning (DL) models utilize Bayesian methods which are computationally expensive and time-consuming. In …

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Mark Neubauer
A detailed study of interpretability of deep neural network based top taggers featured image

Explainability of Deep Neural Networks in top quark tagging

Recent developments in the methods of explainable AI (XAI) allow researchers to explore the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs), revealing crucial information about …

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Mark Neubauer
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Fast Machine Learning for Science

In this community review report, we discuss applications and techniques for fast machine learning (ML) in science—the concept of integrating powerful ML methods into the real-time …

Allison Mccarn Deiana
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