By training on large, unlabelled datasets, SSL models acquire a task-agnostic representation of detector data. Key for unlocking the "ChatGPT" of particle physics experiments.
Design and deploy cutting-edge machine learning models onto the next-generation data acquisition board, aiming at empower KamLAND-Zen with in-situ position reconstruction capabilities and real-time detector control functionality.
Using reinforcement learning to achieve weakly supervised classification of the energy spectrum or to control a robotic arm for detector characterization!
Releasing real neutrino and dark matter detector data to the public, allowing core AI algorithms to extract the signal and produce real physics results thereby advancing fundamental science!
The Germanium Machine Learning (GeM) Group within the LEGEND collaboration, leverages efficient and interpretable AI to aid all aspects of LEGEND analysis while educating domestic and international collaborators to gain AI experiences.
Co-advised with Prof. Kaixuan Ni, Min is a graduate student working at the XENONnT dark matter experiment, mainly interested in novel AI applications for rare event searches such as neutrinoless double-beta decay. In his spare time, he likes reading, watching movies and exploring interesting places.
Sonata is a fourth-year Physics major specializing in Computational Physics and double-minoring in Mathematics and History. Her research involves the application of reinforcement learning for Germanium detector waveform classification. When she's not tapping away at her keyboard, she can usually be found vibing at a coffeehouse or fencing in the gym. En garde!
Eugene is a fourth-year at Halicioglu Data Science Institute. He believes that machine learning will be the key to better understand how all the mechanisms in the universe work. And when we do find out how everything works, only then will we have a chance to understand why everything began. Outside of academics, he likes to watch UFC, swim, or play pool with his family.
"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