Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning 2024

Organisers

Organisers CERN

Alberto Pace | CERN

Director

Alberto Pace is a member of the IT department at CERN where he leads the Compute and Devices group. The group provides, operates, and maintains the scientific computing services and infrastructure needed by the laboratory and its experiments to accomplish their mission. The group manages end-users desktop and mobile devices and supports the needed operating systems as well as deploys and configure core productivity applications and software licenses.

For several years, Alberto has led the Storage group ensuring a coherent development process for Physics Data management activities, strongly driven by operational and user needs. He also represents CERN in the Advisory Board of the Internet Society (isoc.org) and the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c.org).

He has more than 30 years experiences in computing services, infrastructure, software engineering, accelerator control and accelerator operation. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1987, where he received the first prize among Electronic Engineering students of the North Italy section.

Kristina Gunne | CERN

Administrative Manager

Kristina is a member of the CERN IT Innovation section, and joined the CSC team in January 2023 in the role of Administrative Manager. When Kristina came to CERN in 1996 working for the Swedish Science Council (supposedly for 6 months), she became involved in numerous outreach and teaching initiatives which she continued for 7 years. In 2004, she joined the Project Office of the EGEE EC project, dealing with over 90 partners around the world. She was Administrative manager of CERN openlab between 2011 and 2023 and she is now fully committed to openlab summer students, CSC and big events. Kristina studied Communication Science and Social Sciences at Lund University. In her spare time Kristina enjoys taking her e-bike for a ride in the mountains, travelling, cooking and spending time with friends and family.

Andrzej Nowicki | CERN

Technical Manager

Andrzej is a member of the CERN Database Team, specialising in Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. With a passion for solving technical challenges and a commitment to sharing his knowledge of database systems, he makes valuable contributions to the team's objectives. Andrzej began his journey with CERN in 2020 and recently joined the CSC team in 2023. Prior to joining CERN, he gained experience working with various companies, where he actively contributed to numerous IT projects as a database administrator. He holds a MEng from Poznan University of Technology. Outside of his professional pursuits, Andrzej finds joy in exploring the world around him. He nurtures his adventurous spirit by travelling, hiking and skiing.

Local organisers

Toni Šćulac | Faculty of Science, University of Split - Croatia

Toni was born and lives in Split, Croatia where he works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Split.

He started working for the CMS experiment at CERN in 2015 as a part of his PhD studies. In 2018, he successfully defended his PhD thesis at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France) and University of Zagreb (Croatia).

His main expertise are studies of electron identification and Higgs boson physics. In 2020, he became a convener of the group that studies Higgs boson decays to two Z bosons.

During his studies, Toni attended CSC in Madrid in 2017 and tCSC in Split in 2018. Since he became associate professor in 2019 he already mentored several Bachelors and Master’s thesis and already co-supervised a PhD thesis. While continuing to develop as a scientist his main passion is mentoring students.