Collaborators
Current and former students, postdocs, and research collaborators.
Students
PhD students and undergraduate researchers.
Haotian Cao
PhD Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2024 – present
Edison Weik
PhD Student
New York University
2020 (PhD 2026)
Thesis:
Machine Learning for the ATLAS HLT MET Trigger and Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Matthew Drnevich
PhD Student
New York University
2020 (PhD 2026)
Thesis:
Computational Methods for Systematic Uncertainties and Quasiprobabilistic Modeling in High-Energy Physics
Zubair Bhatti
PhD Student
New York University
2019 (PhD 2026)
Thesis:
Enhancing searches for new particles through reinterpretation methods
Irina Espejo Morales
PhD Student (Data Science)
New York University
2018 – 2023 (PhD 2023)
Now: Postdoc at Polymathic AI
PhD Student (Data Science)
New York University
2018 – 2023 (PhD 2023)
Now: Researcher at Google DeepMind
PhD Student
New York University
2018 – 2023 (PhD 2023)
Now: Junior Fellow, Harvard University and IAFAI Fellow, MIT
PhD Student (Data Science)
New York University
2018 – 2023 (PhD 2023)
Now: Postdoc at Boston University and MIT
PhD Student
New York University
2014 – 2019 (PhD 2019)
Thesis:
Searches for Supersymmetry, RECAST, and Contributions to Computational High Energy Physics
Now: Professor for Data Science for Physics, Technical University Munich
PhD Student
New York University
2010 – 2014 (PhD 2014)
Thesis:
Higgs Boson Discovery and First Property Measurements with the H -> ZZ -> 4l Channel and the Combination
Now: Facebook Reality Labs
PhD Student
New York University
2009 – 2014 (PhD 2014)
Thesis:
Exotic Higgs, Rare Z, and a Dark Photon: Searching for New Physics at the LHC, LEP, and Jefferson Lab
Now: Postdoc at Duke University
George Herbert Lewis
PhD Student
New York University
2008 – 2013 (PhD 2013)
Thesis:
Measurements and Searches for New Physics Using Top Quarks at the LHC
Now: Google
Current
Haotian Cao
PhD Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2024 – present
Former
George Herbert Lewis
PhD Student
New York University
2008 – 2013
Postdocs
Postdoctoral researchers.
Jay Sandesara
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2024 – present
Patrick Rieck
Research Scientist
New York University
2018 – 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2019 – 2022
Now: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; Assistant Professor at Boston University
Sebastian Macaluso
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2018 – 2022
Now: Senior Researcher at Telefonica Research
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2018 – 2021
Now: Research Scientist at Qualcomm AI Research
Leonora Vesterbacka
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2017 – 2020
Now: Data Scientist at Vinnova
Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow
New York University
2015 – 2017
Now: Associate Professor at University of Liège, Belgium
Duccio Pappadopulo
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2014 – 2017
Catrin Bernius
Research Scientist
New York University
2012 – 2016
Now: Computing Professional at SLAC
Kirill Prokofiev
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2010 – 2014
Now: Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Attila Krasznahorkay
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2009 – 2012
Now: CERN Fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2008 – 2012
Now: FHNW School of Engineering and UCL Department of Physics
Former
Patrick Rieck
Research Scientist
New York University
2018 – 2023
Former
Duccio Pappadopulo
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2014 – 2017
Former
Catrin Bernius
Research Scientist
New York University
2012 – 2016
Former
Kirill Prokofiev
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2010 – 2014
Former
Attila Krasznahorkay
Postdoctoral Researcher
New York University
2009 – 2012
Scientists
Research scientists and staff.
Alexander Held
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2023 – present
Collaborators
Frequent research collaborators.
François Charton
Research Engineer
Axiom Math (formerly Meta AI)
2024 – present
Research Fellow
Flatiron Institute
2024 – present
Now: ML for supernova cosmology; foundation models for science
Professor
SLAC / Stanford University
2024 – present
Now: Chair of Particle Physics & Astrophysics; Sakurai Prize winner; NAS member
Professor
UW-Madison
2022 – present
Now: String theory, cosmology; Guggenheim Fellow; APS/AAAS Fellow
Executive Director
University of Cambridge
2021 – present
Now: Director of AI@Cam and Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning
University of Cambridge
2021 – present
Now: Academic lead of ai@cam; author of 'The Atomic Human'; founder of GP Summer School
Associate Professor
Imperial College London
2021 – present
Now: CMS Higgs physics group co-convener (2020-2022)
Full Professor
University of Tübingen
2021 – present
Now: Director of Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health; ERC Starting Grant recipient
Full Professor
University of Tübingen
2021 – present
Now: Theory of Machine Learning; Leopoldina member; Bernoulli Prize winner
Researcher
UW-Madison
2018 – present
Now: ML for physics and choreography; former Chamberlain Fellow at LBNL
Matthias Wilhelm
Researcher
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2010 – present
Now: Works on scattering amplitudes; organizer of Amplitudes 2021
Xiao-Li Meng
Professor
Harvard University
2010 – present
Now: Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics; Founding Editor of Harvard Data Science Review
Professor
University of Washington
2005 – present
Now: Deputy Executive Director of IRIS-HEP
Professor
University of Notre Dame
2005 – present
Now: Vice President and Dean of Graduate School; leads US-CMS computing R&D
Senior Research Physicist
Princeton University
1999 – present
Now: Executive Director and PI of IRIS-HEP
Principal Investigator
Morgridge Institute for Research
Now: Leads Bockelman Group; IRIS-HEP collaborator on distributed computing infrastructure
Assistant Professor
UW-Madison
Now: Computational cosmology; ML for CMB and large-scale structure
Jennifer Ngadiuba
Associate Scientist
Fermilab
2024 – 2024
Now: Co-founder of fast machine learning organization
Tianji Cai
Distinguished Researcher
Tongji University
2003 – 2025
Now: AI for physics; formerly SLAC postdoc and UCSB PhD
Researcher
Anthropic
2024 – 2024
Now: Works on finetuning; formerly Meta AI (FAIR), MIT, CERN/LHCb
Abhijith Gandrakota
Research Associate
Fermilab
2023 – 2024
Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2018 – 2024
Now: ATLAS Higgs physics; ML for HEP; Breakthrough Prize recipient
Jonathan Shlomi
Researcher
Weizmann Institute of Science
2017 – 2024
Assistant Professor
NYU
2017 – 2024
Now: Computer Science & Data Science; ML for healthcare; NSF CAREER
Dan Guest
Researcher
University of California, Irvine
2011 – 2024
Now: Deep learning for LHC physics, ATLAS experiment
Daniel Hackett
Postdoctoral Researcher
Fermilab
2023 – 2023
Fernando Romero-López
Researcher
MIT / Universitat de València
2022 – 2023
Sanmay Ganguly
Assistant Professor
IIT Kanpur
2022 – 2023
Now: Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur; formerly at Weizmann Institute
Juan Rojo
Professor
VU Amsterdam / Nikhef
2021 – 2023
Now: NNPDF collaboration; parton distribution functions
Julian Urban
Researcher
Universität Heidelberg
2021 – 2023
VP of AI Research
Ellison Institute of Technology
2020 – 2023
Now: VP AI Research at EIT; former Research Director at Google DeepMind
Denis Boyda
IAIFI Fellow
MIT
2020 – 2023
Gurtej Kanwar
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bern
2020 – 2023
Phiala Shanahan
Associate Professor
MIT
2020 – 2023
Sébastien Racanière
Staff Research Engineer
Google DeepMind
2020 – 2023
Felix Kling
Research Fellow
DESY
2017 – 2023
Michael Kagan
Panofsky Fellow
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2016 – 2023
CNRS Researcher
LPSC Grenoble
2013 – 2023
Now: BSM phenomenology; LHC Reinterpretation Forum co-lead
Professor
Weizmann Institute of Science
2012 – 2023
Now: Head of the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics
Matthias Wolf
Researcher
CMS Experiment
2000 – 2023
Now: PhD from Notre Dame; developed Lobster computing framework
Philip Bechtle
Senior Researcher
University of Bonn
2022 – 2022
Now: ATLAS experiment; HiggsBounds/HiggsSignals developer
Research Scientist
Meta FAIR
2022 – 2022
Now: Neural ODEs (NeurIPS Best Paper); Flow Matching; torchdiffeq creator
Maurizio Pierini
Staff Physicist
CERN
2021 – 2022
Now: CMS ML for particle flow; ERC Consolidator Grant; anomaly detection
Postdoc at MILA (co-advised)
MILA / NYU
2019 – 2022
Now: Senior Research Scientist at Bosch Research
Full Professor
NYU Courant Institute
2017 – 2022
Now: Co-founder of MaD group; NSF CAREER and Sloan Fellow
Meghan Frate
Former PhD Student
UC Irvine (formerly)
2015 – 2022
Now: Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Professor
NYU
2013 – 2022
Now: Courant Institute & Center for Data Science; NSF CAREER & ICML Best Paper
Kirby W. Kemper Endowed Professor
Florida State University
2013 – 2022
Now: Bayesian statistics for HEP; top quark discovery; AAAS Fellow
Sezen Sekmen
Researcher
Kyungpook National University
2013 – 2022
Now: CMS SUSY searches; fast simulation; LHC reinterpretation
Andrew Haas
Associate Professor
NYU
2009 – 2022
Now: ATLAS long-lived particle searches; milliQan co-spokesperson; HiggsHunters founder
Research Lead
Meta FAIR
2009 – 2022
Now: Pioneer of stochastic gradient descent; NeurIPS Test of Time Award
Professor
NYU
2007 – 2022
Now: ATLAS experiment; MET triggers; Golden Dozen teaching award
Professor & Chief AI Scientist
NYU / Meta
2007 – 2022
Now: Turing Award winner; founder of NYU Center for Data Science; pioneer of CNNs
Craig Greenberg
Researcher
UMass Amherst
2020 – 2021
Departmental Lecturer
University of Oxford
2017 – 2021
Now: Lecturer in Machine Learning; leads Oxford AI4Science Lab
President
Simons Foundation
2020 – 2020
Now: President of Simons Foundation; Emeritus Professor at Princeton
George Papamakarios
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
2020 – 2020
Hadar Serviansky
MS Student
Weizmann Institute
2020 – 2020
Now: Research in deep learning and graph neural networks
Nimrod Segol
PhD Student
Weizmann Institute
2020 – 2020
Now: Machine learning with applications to physics
Group Leader
Flatiron Institute
2020 – 2020
Now: Group Leader of Cosmology & Machine Learning at Flatiron; Research Professor at NYU
Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez
Staff Research Engineer
Google DeepMind
2019 – 2020
Peter Battaglia
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
2019 – 2020
Rui Xu
Researcher
Microsoft GenAI
2000 – 2020
Now: Co-author on symbolic regression from deep learning; formerly Princeton
Professor
University of British Columbia
2019 – 2019
Now: Professor at UBC; CEO of Inverted AI
Laurent Daudet
Co-CEO
LightOn
2019 – 2019
Now: Co-founder of LightOn; on leave from Professor of Physics at Université Paris Cité
Associate Professor
EPFL
2019 – 2019
Now: Head of Laboratory of Statistical Physics of Computation
Leslie Vogt-Maranto
Postdoctoral Fellow
NYU
2019 – 2019
Now: Machine learning for quantum chemistry; Tuckerman Group
Maria Schuld
Quantum Machine Learning Research Lead
Xanadu
2019 – 2019
Now: Co-developer of PennyLane; author of 'Machine Learning with Quantum Computers'
Naftali Tishby
Professor (deceased)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019 – 2019
Now: Pioneer of Information Bottleneck theory for deep learning (1952-2021)
Sebastian Neubert
Professor
University of Bonn
2018 – 2019
Now: Leader of LHCb Open Data project; formerly Heidelberg
Research Scientist
New York University / Flatiron Institute
2018 – 2019
Now: Research Scientist at NYU; co-investigator of Polymathic AI
Division Deputy for AI and Science
NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2017 – 2019
Now: Leads Data and AI Services Group at NERSC; PI of FAIR Universe project
Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen
Open Science Expert
CERN
2012 – 2019
Now: Research data publishing and open science initiatives
Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard IQSS
2018 – 2018
Now: Research on computational reproducibility and data provenance
Tibor Šimko
Project Leader
CERN
2018 – 2018
Now: Founder of CERN Open Data Portal, CERN Analysis Preservation, and REANA platform
Kati Lassila-Perini
CMS Data Preservation Lead
Helsinki Institute of Physics / CERN
2012 – 2018
Now: Leads CMS Open Data and data preservation efforts
Salvatore Mele
Head of Open Access
CERN
2012 – 2018
Now: Strategic Director of INSPIRE; co-architect of SCOAP3 Open Access initiative
Diego Rodriguez Rodriguez
Software Engineer
CERN
2003 – 2018
Now: Contributor to CERN Analysis Preservation and Open Data services
Coordinator of IT Communication and Outreach
CERN
2000 – 2018
Now: Coordinator of Open Quantum Institute; drove launch of CERN Open Data Portal
Xiaoli Chen
FAIR Workflow Project Lead
DataCite
2000 – 2018
Now: Formerly at CERN Scientific Information Service; co-author on analysis preservation
Senior Principal ML Researcher
Obsidian Security
2017 – 2017
Now: Former Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Irvine
Prabhat
Former Data & Analytics Group Lead
NERSC (formerly)
2017 – 2017
Now: Transitioned to industry in 2020 after 13 years at LBNL
Professor
New York University
2011 – 2017
Now: Glen de Vries Professor; Executive Director at Genentech Prescient Design
Director of Strategy and Innovation
Atypon
2014 – 2015
Now: Co-founder of Authorea; former CERN IT and Harvard postdoc
Professor
Penn State
2014 – 2015
Now: Huck Chair in Data Privacy; Associate Dean for Research; ASA and IMS Fellow
Alexander Blocker
Researcher
Harvard Statistics (formerly)
2014 – 2015
Now: First winner of Dempster Prize; worked with Xiao-Li Meng on genomic data preprocessing
Professor
Harvard University
2014 – 2015
Now: Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy; PI of Glue software project
Senior Astrophysicist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
2014 – 2015
Now: X-ray astronomy expert; President of International Astrostatistics Association
Sr. Research Scientist
Caltech
2014 – 2015
Now: Deputy Director of Center for Data Driven Discovery; leads ZTF ML group
Distinguished Research Professor
UCLA
2014 – 2015
Now: Director of Center for Knowledge Infrastructures; author of 'Big Data, Little Data, No Data'
Professor
New York University / Flatiron Institute
2014 – 2015
Now: Professor of Physics and Data Science at NYU; Senior Research Scientist at Flatiron
Professor Emerita
University of Michigan
2014 – 2015
Now: Digital Preservation Pioneer (Library of Congress); led CAMiLEON and SEAD projects
Professor
University of Amsterdam
2014 – 2015
Now: Professor of Algorithmic Data Science; co-chair of W3C Provenance Working Group
Senior Astrophysicist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
2014 – 2015
Now: Expert in gravitational lensing, X-ray astronomy, and extragalactic planet detection
Senior Astrophysicist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
2014 – 2015
Now: Chandra X-ray calibration scientist; founding member of CHASC AstroStatistics
Mercè Crosas
President of CODATA
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
2014 – 2014
Now: Head of Computational Social Sciences; formerly Chief Data Science Officer at Harvard IQSS
Research Professor
USC Information Sciences Institute
2014 – 2014
Now: Fellow of AAAI; former AAAI President; National Science Board member
Lorenzo Moneta
Senior Applied Scientist
CERN
2010 – 2014
Now: ROOT Math Work Package lead
Wouter Verkerke
Researcher
NIKHEF
2010 – 2014
Now: Co-developer of RooFit
Ofer Vitells
Researcher
Weizmann Institute of Science
2010 – 2013
Itay Yavin
Associate Professor
McMaster University / Perimeter Institute
2010 – 2012
Now: Expert in physics beyond Standard Model and dark matter
Danilo Piparo
ROOT Project Leader
CERN
2010 – 2010
Now: Leads the ROOT data analysis framework since 2023
Kevin Belasco
Former Researcher
Princeton University (formerly)
2010 – 2010
Now: Contributed to RooStats and MCMC in ROOT framework
Current
DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning
University of Cambridge
2021 – present
Current
Matthias Wilhelm
Researcher
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2010 – present
Former
Jonathan Shlomi
Researcher
Weizmann Institute of Science
2017 – 2024
Former
Dan Guest
Researcher
University of California, Irvine
2011 – 2024
Former
Fernando Romero-López
Researcher
MIT / Universitat de València
2022 – 2023
Former
Juan Rojo
Professor
VU Amsterdam / Nikhef
2021 – 2023
Former
Gurtej Kanwar
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bern
2020 – 2023
Former
Philip Bechtle
Senior Researcher
University of Bonn
2022 – 2022
Former
Maurizio Pierini
Staff Physicist
CERN
2021 – 2022
Former
Meghan Frate
Former PhD Student
UC Irvine (formerly)
2015 – 2022
Former
Sezen Sekmen
Researcher
Kyungpook National University
2013 – 2022
Former
Andrew Haas
Associate Professor
NYU
2009 – 2022
Former
Craig Greenberg
Researcher
UMass Amherst
2020 – 2021
Former
Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez
Staff Research Engineer
Google DeepMind
2019 – 2020
Former
Naftali Tishby
Professor (deceased)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019 – 2019
Former
Sebastian Neubert
Professor
University of Bonn
2018 – 2019
Former
Division Deputy for AI and Science
NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2017 – 2019
Former
Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen
Open Science Expert
CERN
2012 – 2019
Former
Kati Lassila-Perini
CMS Data Preservation Lead
Helsinki Institute of Physics / CERN
2012 – 2018
Former
Salvatore Mele
Head of Open Access
CERN
2012 – 2018
Former
Diego Rodriguez Rodriguez
Software Engineer
CERN
2003 – 2018
Former
Xiaoli Chen
FAIR Workflow Project Lead
DataCite
2000 – 2018
Former
Prabhat
Former Data & Analytics Group Lead
NERSC (formerly)
2017 – 2017
Former
Alexander Blocker
Researcher
Harvard Statistics (formerly)
2014 – 2015
Former
Senior Astrophysicist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
2014 – 2015
Former
Senior Astrophysicist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
2014 – 2015
Former
Senior Astrophysicist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
2014 – 2015
Former
Lorenzo Moneta
Senior Applied Scientist
CERN
2010 – 2014
Former
Wouter Verkerke
Researcher
NIKHEF
2010 – 2014
Former
Ofer Vitells
Researcher
Weizmann Institute of Science
2010 – 2013
Former
Itay Yavin
Associate Professor
McMaster University / Perimeter Institute
2010 – 2012
Former
Kevin Belasco
Former Researcher
Princeton University (formerly)
2010 – 2010