{"id":195,"date":"2020-05-26T20:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.physics.lbl.gov\/atlasgroup\/?page_id=195"},"modified":"2026-10-18T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:52:03","slug":"former-phd-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.physics.lbl.gov\/atlas\/former-phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PhD Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 720px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\"><strong>Now at&#8230;<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><strong>Thesis title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Johannes Wagner<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\"> Founding AI Engineer at Vokram<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.cern\/records\/k1cwz-jm330\">Transforming flavor tagging and its application to Higgs to charm measurements at the ATLAS experiment<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Benjamin Ryan Roberts<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Postdoc at U. Chicago<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.cern\/records\/bbmth-a2m10\">Observation of Four-Top Quark Production and Measurement of Off-shell Higgs Boson Interactions with Top Quarks with ATLAS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Junwen Xiong<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Postdoc at Caltech<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/content\/qt5d4098xt\/qt5d4098xt.pdf\">Higgs to charm today and tomorrow at ATLAS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Irina Ene<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Industry<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2908300\">Measurements of the Higgs Boson Decays to Bottom and Charm Quarks in the W H Production Channel with the ATLAS Experiment<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Cesar Gonzalez Renteria<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Industry<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2884517\">Measurement of the production of a vector boson in association with a charmed hadron in pp collisions at sqrt(s)= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Gregory Ottino<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Postdoc at LBNL (Nuclear Physics)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2884898\">Direct Charm Reconstruction in Association with W Bosons at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV in the ATLAS experiment<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Sai Neha Santpur<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Postdoc at UC Santa Barbara<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2814087\">Search for Non-pointing and delayed photons in pp collisions at \u221as=13 TeV using the ATLAS detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Patrick McCormack<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Postdoc MIT<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2766809\">Observation and measurement of\u00a0\u03b3\u03b3\u2192W+W\u2212\u00a0in\u00a0pp collisions at\u00a0\u221as\u00a0= 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Jennet Dickinson<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Postdoc at Fermilab<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2719502\">ATLAS Measurements of the Higgs Boson Coupling to the Top Quark in the Higgs to Diphoton Decay Channel<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 48px\">Emily Duffield<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 48px\">Data Scientist at Information Technology at Sleep Number Corporation<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 48px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2687964\">Observation of the electroweak production of two W bosons with the same electric charge in association with two jets in pp collisions at \u221as=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Tova Holmes<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Assistant Prof, University of Tennessee<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2256819\">A Search for Supersymmetry in Events with a Z Boson, Jets, and Missing Transverse Energy in pp Collisions with \u221as=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Brad Axen<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Data Scientist at Square<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2257273\">A Search for Long-Lived, Charged, Supersymmetric Particles using Ionization with the ATLAS Detector A Search for Long-Lived, Charged, Supersymmetric Particles using Ionization with the ATLAS Detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 48px\">Jackie Brosamer<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 48px\">Engineering Lead, Business Platform at Square<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 48px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2258825\">Measurement of jets produced in top quark events using the e\u03bc final state with 2 b-tagged jets in pp collisions at \u221as= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 48px\">Robert Clarke<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 48px\">Submarine Officer and US Navy Ensign<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 48px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2258139\">A Search for Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson with Hadronically Decaying Tau Leptons in the 20.3 inverse fembtobarns using the \u221as=8 TeV Dataset Collected in 2012 by the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">David Yu<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Postdoc at Brown University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2110749\">Searches for new phenomena using events with three or more charged leptons in pp collisions at \u221as=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 48px\">Alexander Sood<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 48px\">Center for Neuroscience \u00a0University of California, Davis, Davis, CA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 48px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/1979607\">Evidence for the production of two W bosons with the same electric charge and two jets in 20.3 fb\u22121 of pp collisions at \u221as=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Ana Ovcharova<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Data Scientist at Capital One<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/1975431\">Measurement of the top quark pair differential cross-section at high top quark transverse momentum in \u221as = 8 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 48px\">Peter Loscutoff<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 48px\">Principal Data Strategist at\u00a0 Clover Health<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 48px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/1593173?ln=en\">Search for resonant WZ to lvll production using 13 fb<sup>-1<\/sup> in \u221as=8 TeV p-p collisions with the ATLAS detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 48px\">Loiuse Skinnari<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 48px\">Assistant Professor at Northeastern University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 48px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/1503359\">A Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model using Like-Sign Muon Pairs in pp Collisions at \u221as=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Joe Virzi<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Software Engineer Telepath Corporation<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/1454635\">A Measurement of the Underlying Event Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions at \u221as=7 TeV in Charged-Particle Jet Events using the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Andre Bach<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Data Scientist at\u00a0 Patreon<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/1500530\">Search for Pair Production of a New b&#8217; Quark that decays into a Boson and a Bottom Quark with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Seth Zenz<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Lecturer at Queen Mary<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdsweb.cern.ch\/record\/1374663\">Properties of Jets Measured with Charged Particles with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Maxwell Scherzer<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">\u00a0Vice President at Goldman Sachs<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdsweb.cern.ch\/record\/1392976\">Measurement of the \u03a5(1S) Production Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collisions at Center of Mass Energy 7 TeV<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Michael Leyton<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Lecturer at Cal Poly<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4174%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdsweb.cern.ch\/record\/1200288\">Minimum Bias Measurements with the ATLAS Detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.4752%;height: 24px\">Lauren Tompkins<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 13.1073%;height: 24px\">Associate Professor, 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