EDUCATION- EDUCATION IS ONE OF OUR PRIMARY MISSIONS
SECTION (1) EDUCATION – PH.D. DEGREES GRANTED
Sixty one graduate students have obtained their Ph.D. degrees from this task, including 10 theses from TASSO, 23 from ALEPH, 9 from the BaBar, and 19 from ATLAS. We list here below their academic post doc positions or non-academic positions after graduation. (This list includes co-advised students)
| 1) James Freeman | 1981 | Fermilab |
| 2) Timothy Barklow | 1983 | Stanford |
| 3) Eric Wicklund | 1984 | Caltech |
| 4) H. Venkataramania | 1985 | Yale |
| 5) David Strom | 1986 | McCormick Fellow U of Chicago |
| 6) Michael Cherney | 1987 | Berkeley |
| 7) Allen Caldwell | 1987 | Columbia |
| 8) Steven Ritz | 1988 | Columbia |
| 9) David Muller | 1989 | Stanford |
| 10) M. Takashima | 1989 | CERN Fellow |
| 11) Douglas Cowen | 1990 | Caltech |
| 12) John Hilgart | 1991 | CERN Fellow |
| 13) Joe Boudreau | 1991 | CERN Fellow |
| 14) Jim Wear | 1991 | U.C. Santa Cruz |
| 15) Yibin Pan | 1991 | Wisconsin |
| 16) David Cinabro | 1991 | Harvard |
| 17) Jolean Pater | 1992 | CERN Fellow |
| 18) Fred Weber | 1993 | CERN Fellow |
| 19) Michael Walsh | 1995 | Rutgers |
| 20) Leo Bellantoni | 1995 | Fermilab Lederman Fellow followed by Wilson Fellow |
| 21) Zhong Feng | 1995 | Johns Hopkins |
| 22) Yongsheng Gao | 1995 | Harvard |
| 23) Jane Nachtman | 1997 | Fermilab Wilson Fellow |
| 24) Jim Grahl | 1998 | Iowa State |
| 25) Peter Elmer | 1998 | Princeton |
| 26) Steve Armstrong | 1998 | CERN Fellow |
| 27) William Orejudos | 1998 | Berkeley |
| 28) Xidong Wu | 1999 | SBC Com. |
| 29) Owen Hayes | 1999 | Booz Allen Hamilton Consult. |
| 30) Tom Greening | 1999 | CERN Fellow |
| 31) Doug Ferguson | 2001 | Wisconsin |
| 32) Jason Nielsen | 2001 | Berkeley |
| 33) Eric Charles | 2002 | Berkeley |
| 34) P. McNamara | 2002 | Rutgers |
| 35) Steve Sekula | 2004 | MIT |
| 36) Ran Liu | 2004 | Berkeley Business School |
| 37) Jinwei Wu | 2004 | Harvard |
| 38) Zhitang Yu | 2005 | Clearshape Tech. |
| 39) Mousumi Datta | 2005 | Fermi National Lab |
| 40) Baosen Cheng | 2005 | Avestar-IP |
| 41) Attila Mihalyi | 2005 | Princeton Consulting |
| 42) Kyle Cranmer | 2005 | Godhaber Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratoy
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers 2007 |
| 43) Karina Loureiro | 2006 | Ohio State |
| 44) Paul Kutter | 2006 | Citizen’s Insurance |
| 45) Alden Stradling | 2008 | University of Texas Arlington |
| 46) Yaquan Fang | 2008 | Wisconsin |
| 47) William Quayle | 2008 | US ATLAS Analysis Fellow |
| 48) Xin Chen | 2009 | Wisconsin |
| 49) Elizabeth Castaneda | 2011 | Foreign Academic Fellowship, Conacyt, Mexico |
| 50) Haifeng Li | 2012 | SUNY-Stony Brook |
| 51) German Carrillo Montoya | 2012 | CERN Fellow |
| 52)Alfredo Castenada | 2012 | U of Texas – A&M |
| 53) Haichen Wang | 2013 | Chamberlain Fellow at Berkeley |
| 54) Haoshuang Ji | 2014 | CONVIVA (real-time big data processing platform) |
| 55) Yao Ming | 2016 | Amazon |
| 56) Hongtao Yang | 2016 | Chamberlain Fellow at Berkeley |
| 57) Andrew Hard | 2016 | |
| 58) Fangzhou Zhang | 2017 | Ernst & Young |
| 59) Fuquan Wang | 2017 | Yelp |
| 60) Laser Kaplan | 2017 | Accenture |
| 61) Xiangyang Ju | 2018 | High Performance Computing Postdoctoral Scholar at Berkeley |
SECTION (2) EDUCATION – TRAINING OF GRADUATE STUDENTS – ATLAS THESES
| Nineteen Ph.D. students have obtained their Ph.D. doing ATLAS research under Prof. Sau Lan Wu’s supervision. |
| 1) Kyle Cranmer (Goldhaber Fellow at BNL; Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2007, now Associate Professor at New York University). Searching for New Physics: Contributions to LEP and the LHC, 2005. |
| 2) Karina Loureiro (Postdoc at Ohio State University). Measuring the Photon Energy Scale Through Test Beam Data, 2006. |
| 3) William Quayle (USATLAS Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab). Searches in the H→WW Decay Mode Using the ATLAS Detector, 2008. |
| 4) Alden Stradling (Postdoc at the University of Texas at Arlington) An examination of backgrounds to early-run minimum-bias events in atlas at the LHC, 2008 |
| 5) Yaquan Fang, (Postdoc at University of Wisconsin), Search for SM Higgs decaying to two photons via ATLAS detector, 2008. |
| 6) Xin Chen, (Postdoc at University of Wisconsin), Reconsctruction of missing ET 2009 and search for a SM Higgs boson via VBF in the H -> tau+ tau- decay in ATLAS, 2008 |
| 7) Elizabeth Castaneda (Foreign Academic Fellow, Mexico). Search for Dilepton Heavy Mass Resonances (Z’) with the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, 2011. |
| 8) Haifeng Li (Postdoc at SUNY at Stony Brook). Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson in H → WW*→lνlν Decay Mode with ATLAS Detector at √s = 7 TeV, 2012. |
| 9) German Carrillo Montoya (Postdoc at University of Witwatersrand and CERN fellow). Standard Model Higgs boson searches in the weak boson decay channels with the ATLAS detector, 2012. |
| 10) Alfredo Castaneda (Postdoc at University of Texas – A&M). Search for TeV-scale Gravity Signatures in Final States with Leptons and Jets with ATLAS at √s=7 TeV, 2012. |
| 11) Haichen Wang (Postdoc at Berkeley with Chamberlain Fellowship). Discovery of the Higgs boson in the H→γγ channel with 7 and 8 TeV data (Also selected as Enrico Fermi Fellow at U. of Chicago), 2015. |
| 12) Haoshuang Ji (software engineer at Conviva) Discovery and measurement of a Higgs Boson, 2014 |
| 13) Hongtao Yang (Postdoc at Berkeley with Chamberlain Fellowship). Discovery of the Higgs Boson, measurements of Higgs Boson properties, and search for high mass beyond the standard model scalar particle in the diphoton final state with the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider, 2016) |
| 14) Yao Ming (Software Developpment Engineer at Amazon corporate LLC) . Search for b¯b decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson (W/Z) with the ATLAS detector, 2016 |
| 15) Andrew Hard (Software engineer at Google) . Search and discovery with the resonant γγ final state at ATLAS, 2016. |
| 16) Fuquan Wang (Software engineer at Yelp) . Search for Dark Matter in events with a photon and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 8 and 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, 2016 |
| 17) Fangzhou Zhang (Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young) . Measurements of the Higgs Boson Production and Decay Rates and Coupling Strengths using pp Collision Data at √s = 7 and 8 TeV in the ATLAS Experiment, 2017. |
| 18)Laser Kaplan (Data Scientist for Accenture). Search for low mass di-jet resonances produced in association withinitial state radiation at ATLAS, 2017 |
| 19)Xiangyang Ju (High Performance Computing Postdoctoral Scholar at Berkeley) – Observation of a Standard Model Higgs boson and search for additional scalars in the ℓ+ ℓ– ℓ+ ℓ– final state with the ATLAS detector |
SECTION (3) EDUCATION – ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF FORMER POST-DOCS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS (37)
Our 37 former postdocs and graduate students are faculty members in major U.S. universities and worldwide. In addition, thirteen are permanent staff members at major High Energy Physics laboratories. Also a number of our former PhD entered the workforce of well-known industries, providing successfully the functionality of technology transfer.
FULL PROFESSORS (27)
| 1. Steven Ritz | Full Professor and Director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (UC- Santa Cruz); NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal; APS Fellow; Sloan Foundation Fellow; Chairman of the Project Prioritization Panel (P5) 2013; former member of HEPAP |
| 2. Robert Johnson | Full Professor, Chair and former Associate Director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (University of California, Santa Cruz); APS Fellow |
| 3. Allen Caldwell | Former Full Professor (Columbia University), now Managing Director of Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich (since April 2012); former spokesman of ZEUS (1997-1998) |
| 4. Michael Cherney | Full Professor, former Director – Energy Technology Program (Creighton University) |
| 5. Vivek Sharma | Full Professor (UC San Diego); Sloan Foundation Fellow; APS Fellow |
| 6. David Strom | Full Professor (University of Oregon) |
| 7. Shan Jin | Full Professor and Deputy Director, Exp. Phys. Div. (Inst. of HEP, Beijing);member of the Science Committee of IHEP; 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars |
| 8. John Conway | Full Professor (University of California, Davis); APS Fellow |
| 9. John Harton | Full Professor (Colorado State University) |
| 10. Yuanning Gao | Full Professor and Director of the Center for HEP (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing); 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars |
| 11. David Cinabro | Full Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy (Wayne State University) |
| 12. Hongbo Hu | Full Prof.; standing member of the Science Committee of IHEP and former Deputy Director of the Astroparticle Physics Lab. (Inst. of HEP, Beijing); 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars. |
| 13. Douglas Cowen | Full Professor of Physics (Penn State U), NSF Career Award (1999-2003); Fulbright Scholar; NSF career award; Francis W. Sears Physics Prize |
| 14. Haibo Li | Full Professor (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing); 100 Talents award; National Science Award for Distinguished Young Scholars. |
| 15. Joe Izen | Full Professor (University of Texas, Dallas); former co-spokesman of BES |
| 16. Haiping Peng | Full Professor (University of Science and Technology, China); 100 Talents award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 17. Michael Schmitt | Full Professor and Chair (Northwestern University), former Assistant Professor at Harvard |
| 18. Joe Boudreau | Full Professor (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 19. Lianliang Ma | Full Professor (Shandong University, China) recipient of |
| 20. Stathes Paganis | Full Professor (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); former Professor at the University of Sheffield, UK |
| 21. Yaquan Fang | Full Professor (Institute of HEP, Beijing); 100 Talent award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chinese National Award for 1000 Youth Talents Plan |
| 22. Bruce Mellado | Full Professor (U. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) |
| 23. Jason Nielsen | Full Professor and Associate Director, Institute for Particle Physics (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| 24. Haifen Li | Full Professor (Shandong University, China); Qi-Lu Young Scholar of Shandong University |
| 25. Yongsheng Gao | Full Professor (California State University at Fresno) |
| 26. Kyle Cranmer | Full Professor (New York University); NSF Career Award (2009); Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2007; Goldhaber Fellow, BNL 2005-2007; Member of HEPAP (2016-2019) |
| 27. Isabel Pedraza | Full Professor (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico) |
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS WITH TENURE (6) AND ASSISTANT PROFESSORS (4)
| 28. Yibin Pan | Associate Professor (University of Wisconsin) |
| 29. Trevor Vickey | Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) (Sheffield University, UK) |
| 30. Jane Nachtman | Associate Professor (University of Iowa) |
| 31. Gerald Rudolph | Associate Professor (Universität Innsbruck) |
| 32. Stephen Sekula | Associate Professor (Southern Methodist University) |
| 33. Xin Chen | Associate Professor (Tsinghua University, China) |
| 34. Luis Flores Castillo | Assistant Professor (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) |
| 35. Swagato Banerjee | Assistant Professor (University of Louisville) |
| 36. Haichen Wang | Assistant Professor (UC Berkeley, USA) |
| 37. Alfredo Castaneda | Assistant Professor (Universidad de Sonora, Mexico) |
SECTION (4) EDUCATION – PERMANENT STAFF POSITIONS IN NATIONAL HIGH ENERGY LABS
This table gives the list of Sau Lan Wu’s 14 former postdocs and former graduate students who received permanent staff positions in National and International High Energy Laboratories.
| FORMER POSTDOCS | |
| 1. Saul Gonzalez | Senior Advisor at the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate Washington D.C. Metro Area ; Former program Director of Experimental Elementary Particle Physics at NSF ;Former Assistant Director for Physical Sciences at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Former Program Manager for Proton Accelerator Physics, Physics Research Division of Office of High Energy Physics, DOE |
| 2. Pierre Lecomte | Senior Research Scientist, ETHZ (Switzerland) |
| 3. Tom C. Meyer | Staff Physicist, CERN |
| 4. John Walsh | Senior Researcher, INFN (Italy) |
| 5. Mathew Graham | Staff Physicist, SLAC |
| 6. Alden Stradling | HPC Cluster Engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS | |
| 7. James Freeman | Scientist, Fermilab |
| 8. Tim Barklow | Staff Physicist, SLAC |
| 9. David Muller | Staff Physicist, SLAC |
| 10. Eric Wicklund | Staff Scientist, Fermilab |
| 11. Leo Bellantoni | Scientist, Fermilab, (former Wilson and Lederman Fellow at Fermilab) |
| 12. Joleen Pater | Staff Physicist at the University of Manchester |
| 13. Eric Charles | Staff Physicist, SLAC |
| 14. Peter Elmer | Senior Research Physicist at Princeton University |
SECTION (5) EDUCATION – TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
An interesting development is that high-energy physicists are entering the workforce of well-known industries. Having been well trained in the high technology environment of large international physics collaborations, members of our group are eminently suited to provide the functionality of technology transfer, always on the leading edge. For example, some of the former postdocs and former graduate students have held positions in industry are:
(Note that this list may not be up to date)
| 1) Ian Scott – Chief Science Officer Deloitte Omnia – Artificial Intelligence. Former Partner Chief Data Scientist Deloitte Canada. Former VP customer Solutions at Lattice Engines. Former Chief Technology Officer at Angoss Software. |
| 2) John Yamartino – Senior Director of Analytics and Machine Learning at Lam Research, Mountain View, California. Former Director of Analytics at Lam Research. Former Senior Data Scientist at IBM (Greater New York City Area). Former Engineering Program Manager at Applied Materials, Inc., Silicon Valley. |
| 3) Makoto Takashima –Consultant at Cinctive Capital, New York. |
| 4) Zhong Feng – Lead System Engineer at Raytheon for NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. |
| 5) John Hilgart – Senior Network Security Engineer at BASF. Former Senior Internet Infrastructure Architect at BASF. Former eCommerce Infrastructure Architect. |
| 6) Fred Weber – Senior Research Scientist at A2Z Development Center Inc A2Z Development Center Inc Grinnell College Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Former Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University Earth Institute (subject: Spoken Language Technology for Development: Communication as Empowerment). Former Senior Research Scientist at ScanSoft, Inc. (Boston) for speech recognition. |
| 7) Jim Wear – Senior Physicist at GE Medical Systems, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 8) Michael Walsh – Consultant at Superior Consulting Company Inc. |
| 9) Xidong Wu – Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Workday, Pleasanton, CA. Former Lead Member of Technical Staff in Telecommunications at AT&T (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Software Engineer at SBC Communications. |
| 10) Owen Hayes – Senior Program Consultant at CIT, Greater NY City area. Former Founder and Partner of Jorgeson Trading, former Director of Strategy & Technology at Thomson Reuters, Former Business Technology Director at Elsevier (Greater Philadelphia Area). Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting Firm. |
| 11) Thomas Greening – Senior Scientist at Apple (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Principal Scientist at Honeywell. Recipient of Technical Achievement Award (2003) and Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award (2002). |
| 12) Stephen Armstrong – Senior Director – Corporate Capital and Financial Strategy at Lonza (Basel, Switzerland). Former Assistant Vice President, SGS Group management Ltd, Switzerland. |
| 13) Zhitang Yu – Senior Software Development Engineer at Mentor Graphics (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Research and Development Engineer at ClearShape Technologies. |
| 14) Baosen Cheng – Software Engineer at Plaxo (San Francisco Bay Area). Former Software Engineer at Avestar-IP. |
| 15) Attila Mihalyi – Director at Princeton Consultants, former Senior Engineering Specialist at Princeton Consultants (Greater New York City Area). Former Senior Associate/Consultant at Princeton Consultants. |
| 16) Jinwei Wu – Strategist at Pine River Capital Management (Greater New York City Area). Former Strategist at Goldman Sachs (Greater New York City Area). |
| 17) William Orejudos – Senior Member, Energy and Environmental Services, SRA International (Charlottesville, Virginia Area). |
| 18) Paul Kutter – Directors of Forecasting and Research at Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. Former Actuarial Analyst at Citizens Property Insurance (Tallahassee, Florida). |
| 19)Sanjay Padhi – Global Scientific Computing Principal at Amazon Web Servics |
| 20)Lashkar Kashif – Lead Data Scientist & Product Director. Former Business Associate – Data Science at Gartner Inc |
| 21)Haoshuang Ji – Senior Software engineer at Conviva |
| 22) Yao Ming – Software Developpment Engineer at Amazon corporate LLC. |
| 23) Andrew Hard – Software engineer at Google. |
| 24) Fuquan Wang – Software engineer at Yelp. |
| 25)Fangzhou Zhang – Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young. |
| 26) Laser Kaplan – Data Scientist/Software Engineer, Data Plus Math, San Diego, California |
| 27) German Carillo Montoya – Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Fortum, Zürich, Switzerland |