Author: thomsone

Welcome to new graduate students Hayden Bronson, Saksevul Arias Santiz, Michael Cairo, and Max Cohen. As the poster in the second floor says, a PhD is about the journey and we look forward to research with you all in the years ahead on ATLAS.

The Penn ATLAS group is excited to welcome new Professor Dylan Rankin!  Dylan joins us from MIT and will start officially in January 2023, though he has already moved to Philadelphia and can usually be found on the first floor of DRL.  Two highlights among many research interests include innovative application of machine learning to a search for dark mediators decaying to a collimated pair of tau leptons (note that tau leptons are always tough at hadron colliders!), and leadership in HLS4ML, which allows to develop machine learning tools and transfer them to FPGAs (this can improve our ability to pick out the most interesting few thousand events from the forty million collisions happening each second, aka the trigger). Dylan is supervising the research of third-year graduate student Gwen Gardner on boosted Higgs to WW in the lvqq final state.

See Dylan Rankin’s webpage for more information https://www.physics.upenn.edu/people/dylan-rankin here