IUPAP EARLY CAREER SCIENTIST AWARDS 2024 IN PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Jennifer Ngadiuba (Fermilab)
"For co-design, development and deployment of novel machine learning techniques to address complex elementary particle physics challenges with focus on ultra-fast real-time data analysis on hardware triggers and for model agnostic searches for beyond the Standard Model physics signals at the Large Hadron Collider".
Jennifer Ngadiuba has been a Wilson Fellow at Fermilab since 2021, focusing on the search for new physics in collider data and enhancing the capabilities of collider experiments for such searches. She graduated from the University of Zurich, where she conducted research at new center-of-mass energies, searching for new heavy resonances decaying to dibosons at the CMS experiment, and validating and utilizing new jet substructure techniques.
Ngadiuba was a research fellow at CERN and later at Caltech, where she continued to develop experimental techniques for diboson resonances and began exploring the potential of Deep Learning, focusing on anomaly detection and fast inference on FPGAs for the CMS trigger system. Since joining Fermilab, she has integrated her work on anomaly detection and AI in trigger systems to identify potential new physics collisions in real-time with the CMS detector.
Ngadiuba's innovative work in AI applications to CMS physics earned her the U.S. Department of Energy’s AI4HEP award in 2023. In the same year, she was also named a fellow of the AI2050 initiative by Schmidt Sciences, recognizing her significant contributions to the field.
Ian Moult (Yale University)
"For the invention of novel jet substructure observables which have had a direct impact on the collider physics program, and for developing new effective field theory techniques to enable high precision calculations, including in multi-prong kinematics and in subleading soft and collinear limits.”
Ian Moult is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Yale University. His research focuses on developing new techniques in quantum field theory for improving our understanding of high-energy particle physics experiments. He graduated from the University of British Columbia, and received his Ph.D from MIT. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at LBL/UC Berkeley and SLAC, before joining the Yale Physics Department. Ian was awarded the J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics from the American Physical Society, and the the Wu-Ki Tung Award for Early-Career Research on Quantum Chromodynamics.
