Ben Nachman elected to leadership position in APS Topical Group on Data Science

Ben Nachman elected to leadership position in APS Topical Group on Data Science

Ben Nachman, a staff scientist in the Physics Division, has been elected to a Chair-line role in the American Physical Society’s (APS) Topical Group on Data Science.

As head of the Physics Division’s Machine Learning Group, Nachman leads a cross-cutting effort that connects researchers who are developing, adapting, and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) olutions to fundamental physics challenges across all high-energy physics frontiers including theory. Data science, which already has innumerable applications across all STEM fields, is a highly interdisciplinary and quickly growing field at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and mathematics.

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