"For the invention of a novel machine learning algorithm that broke down significant technological barriers with monolithic liquid scintillator detectors and, in turn, delivered the world’s most sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay." link
"Aobo Li is a postdoctoral research associate and COSMS Fellow in the College’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is described by his professors as a “rising star in the neutrino and nuclear physics community.” He leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate the experimental search of neutrino-less double-beta decay – part of an effort to explain why there was matter left after the Big Bang instead of only pure energy. His efforts to stay informed about new tools in machine learning (and immediately learn how to best apply them to experiments) has already led to several notable achievements. Li’s expertise and leadership provide a unique educational opportunity for UNC graduate and undergraduate students."link
"The contribution Ad-hoc Pulse Shape Simulation using Cyclic Positional U-Net by Aobo Li, Julieta Gruszko, Brady Bos, Thomas Caldwell, Esteban León, and John Wilkerson was selected for the MLST Paper Award. The award is sponsored by Machine Learning: Science and Technology and acknowledges an outstanding submission to the workshop."link paper link
This course aims at teaching machine learning to experimental physicists, it discussed current AI frontiers in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing and how they can be applied to comtemporary particle physics experiments. Course website
Advisor: Chritopher Grant
Thesis: The Tao and Zen of neutrinos: neutrinoless double beta decay in KamLAND-Zen 800