benjamin michlin

* ● Hardware expert on call during commissioning of detector upgrades * ● Worked with run coordination and assisted with data taking from particle collisions * ○ Rapid problem solving while under pressure * ● Multiple weekly presentations and status updates were given at CERN to 50 people

* ● Used analytic and numeric techniques in to synchronize data output of massive hardware systems for CMS data flow and acquisition * ● Worked with team of over 3500 people in commissioning of CMS Level-1 Trigger system * ○ Analyzed and reduced data flow from 6.25 x 1011 to 1 x 105 collisions/second * ○ Hardware must decide whether or not to keep an event every 3μs * ● Wrote software to “unpack” bit-level data directly from hardware and create human-readable data formats * ○ Implemented noise recovery systems, unity testing, and message logging systems

* ● Radiation testing at Crocker Nuclear Lab of FPGAs for use in high radiation environments * ● Wrote algorithms to quickly analyze particle collisions and control data acquisition * ● Reduced event acceptance rate by 10% with less than 1% loss in efficiency

* Spring 2013, Physics for Citizenship. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Padley, Department of Physics. * Fall 2013, General Physics I Lab (Mechanics). Supervisor: Dr. Stan Dodds, Department of Physics. * Spring 2014, Physics for Citizenship. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Padley, Department of Physics. * Fall 2014, Undergraduate Mechanics Lab. Double TA Assignment Supervisor: Dr. Lam Yu, Department of Physics.

Programmed analysis software in Java and Mathematica to investigate and reconstruct metastable supersymmetrical tau decays to determine the efficiency of potential particle detector configurations for use in the International Linear Collider. Advisor: Dr. Bruce Schumm, Department of Physics.

Supported student learning in upper division physics courses by teaching problem solving strategies and concepts which included, but were not limited to, nuclear, particle, quantum and atomic physics, as well as statistical mechanics, special relativity, and advanced mathematical methods in an interactive small group setting. Supervisor: Dr. Holly Gritsch de Cordova, Learning Support Services.

Designed and conducted experiments to optimize and study anisotropic conductive adhesives on silicon chips for use at the International Linear Collider. Advisors: Dr. Richard Lander, Dr. Mani Tripathi, Department of Physics.

* ● Physics analysis searching for a new light boson as a source of dark matter with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC arising from new Higgs boson decays * ● Analyzed 30 PB of particle collision data using clusters and grid computing * ● Generated, validated, and analyzed 100 TB of simulated Monte Carlo samples * ● Data driven estimation of quantum chromodynamics backgrounds * ● Created advanced algorithms and techniques with C++, python, Mathematica, and machine learning, to separate signal from background in data and perform efficiency studies

Thesis: Upgrade studies for the CMS detector muon system at the CERN LHC Advisor: Dr. Paul Padley, Department of Physics

Thesis: A topological search for beyond the Standard Model light bosons decaying into muon pairs with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC

Thesis: Non-prompt tracking with SiD: performance of explicit metastable stau NLSP reconstruction Advisor: Dr. Bruce Schumm, Department of Physics