Research Team
I work with graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers as part of the Carleton ATLAS group. Our research spans particle-physics analysis, machine learning, Higgs and electroweak physics, jet reconstruction and calibration, and detector development.
Current Graduate Students
Rowan Clendening — PhD, 2026–present
Jet calibration and Higgs-boson physics with ATLAS.
Co-supervised with Thomas Koffas.
Owen Darragh — PhD, 2023–present
Higgs-boson physics and forward-jet calibration with ATLAS.
Co-supervised with Manuella Vincter.
Matthew Smith — MSc/PhD, 2021–present
Machine-learning-based unfolding and precision measurements with ATLAS.
Co-supervised with Alain Bellerive.
Current Postdoctoral Researchers
Yuzhan Zhao — Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024–present
Precision measurements of electroweak Z+jets production with ATLAS.
Jeffrey Dandoy — Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023–present
ATLAS jet reconstruction and calibration and machine-learning-based
unbinned measurements.
Former Graduate Students
Ezekiel Staats — PhD, 2025
Higgs-boson physics and the ATLAS Inner Tracker.
Co-supervised with Thomas Koffas.
Bryce Norman — PhD, 2025
Search for and evidence of the Higgs-boson decay to muons with ATLAS.
Co-supervised with Thomas Koffas.
Laura Miller — PhD, 2023
Machine learning and high-dimensional and unbinned measurements with ATLAS.
Stephen Weber — PhD, 2021
Measurements of electroweak Z+jets production with ATLAS.
Co-supervised with Alain Bellerive.
His thesis received the 2021 CAP Particle Physics Division Thesis Award.
Gustav Lindberg — MSc, 2023
Particle-level definition of dark jets.
Co-supervised with Caterina Doglioni, Lund University.
Tae Hyon Park — MSc, 2018
Measurement of the ATLAS jet energy resolution using momentum-balance techniques.
Steven Lee — MSc, 2018
Development and evaluation of ATLAS Inner Tracker strip sensors and detector modules.
Co-supervised with Thomas Koffas.
Former Postdoctoral Researchers
Melpomeni (Magda) Diamantopoulou —
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022–2026
ATLAS jet reconstruction and in-situ jet calibration.
Christoph Klein —
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019–2026
Quality control, testing and commissioning of the ATLAS Inner Tracker strip detector.
John Keller —
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017–2025
Higgs-boson physics and the ATLAS Inner Tracker, including studies of
vector-boson-fusion Higgs production.
Ioannis Nomidis —
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2017
Higgs-boson physics, including the H → ZZ* → 4l and
H → γγ channels.
Undergraduate Research
I regularly supervise undergraduate students through full-year Honours projects and summer research programs. Honours projects culminate in an Honours thesis, while summer students typically work full-time on a research project through programs such as the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) and the Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) summer program.
Honours Research Projects
Kieran Macqueen-Ladouc — 2025–2026
Improved Calibration of Hadronic Jets Under High Pileup Conditions at ATLAS
Maya Gyi — 2024–2025
Look at this graph: Kernel based visualization of unbinned data
Ajmer Thethy — 2024–2025
Determining jet energy resolution using a convolution based method
Ratulkannan Rengaprabhu — 2024–2025
Jet Calibration using the Forward Folding Technique
Lei Zhong — 2023–2024
3D visualization of ATLAS particle collision events.
Co-supervised with Jesse Heilman.
Alex Duran Buchsbaum — 2018–2019
Simulation of particle showers in electromagnetic calorimeters
Summer Research Students
Evan Rhyness — 2026
Pileup jets and techniques for their mitigation in ATLAS.
Evelyn Bodnar — NSERC USRA, 2025
Search for the lepton-flavour-violating Higgs-boson decay
H → eμ, and final-state-radiation corrections for leptonic
Higgs-boson decays. Co-supervised with Jesse Heilman.
Evan Rhyness — NSERC USRA, 2025
Z-boson polarization and differential cross sections in electroweak
Z+jets production.
Thomas Admiral — NSERC USRA, 2023
Comparison of boosted decision trees and neural networks for density reweighting.
Maya Gyi — NSERC USRA, 2023
Machine-learning-based modelling of backgrounds to Higgs bosons decaying to muons.
Kristopher Samant — NSERC USRA + IPP, 2021
Machine-learning methods for quark–gluon jet identification.
Jérémie LePage-Bourbonnais —
NSERC USRA, 2021
Dark-matter emerging-jet signatures.
Co-supervised with Kevin Graham.
Caitlyn Dewar — NSERC USRA, 2019
Modelling high-intensity pileup interactions for ATLAS collision data.
Gareth Smith — NSERC USRA + IPP, 2018
Unsupervised machine-learning algorithms for hadronic-jet identification.
Andrew Zwaniga — CUROP, 2017
Fiducial Higgs-boson cross-section measurements.
Audrey Vallencourt — NSERC USRA, 2016
Visualization tools for high-energy collisions and QCD pull-vector studies.