Recent Highlights
Latest writing, research, and technical contributions across platforms
Recent Writing
Medium Articles
- Coming Soon: The Physics Hidden in Your AI - Exploring the transformer-spin correspondence
Published on Medium
Technical Posts
Training Dynamics of Transformer Attention Heads - A time-dependent study of W_QK statistics across training checkpoints in the Pythia model suite: how spectral structure, stable rank, and…
April 2026Singular Value Structure of Transformer Attention Heads - An empirical study of the singular value spectra of W_QK matrices across transformer architectures: spectral distributions, participation ratios, and what…
March 2026Inverse Scattering via Physics-Informed Neural Networks - PINN solving the KdV equation with boundary conditions specified via inverse scattering transform.
March 2026
Recent Publications
Latest Research
ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of photonuclear jet production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. (2024), arXiv:2409.11060
R. Milton et al., Design of a SiPM-on-Tile ZDC for the future EIC and its Performance with Graph Neural Networks, Submitted to JINST (2024), arXiv:2406.12877
Recent Talks
2023-2024 Highlights
- ATLAS Overview - Quark Matter 2025, Houston, TX (September 2023)
- Applications of AI and ML to Nuclear Physics - National Nuclear Physics Summer School (July 2023)
- Machine Learning Approaches to Calorimetric Particle Reconstruction - University of Washington (August 2022)
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Recognition & Media Coverage
Landmark Discovery Recognition
Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead–Lead Collisions - First direct observation of jet quenching:
- Physical Review Letters Cover Article (December 2010) with accompanying Physics Viewpoint commentary
- CERN Press Release - “LHC experiments bring new insight into primordial Universe” highlighting ATLAS as “the first experiment to report direct observation of jet quenching”
- CERN Courier Feature - “ATLAS observes striking imbalance of jet energies in heavy-ion collisions”
Additional Research Recognition
- DOE Office of Science Highlight - “When in a Plasma of Quarks and Gluons, Not All Jets Radiate Equally” featuring subsequent jet substructure research
Research Funding Recognition
- DOE Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative - Principal Investigator on competitive grant ($20 million program announcement) supporting AI-Assisted Detector Design research
Expert Commentary & Analysis
- ATLAS Collaboration Briefings - Author of research summaries for public communication:
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