Outside my courses, I have taught machine learning and data analysis to fellow CMS physicists, co-administered open-source organizations in Google Summer of Code, co-organized machine learning hackathons, and brought machine learning, physics and the LHC to high school students and the public.
2021–2026 · Open-source science
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code pairs new contributors with mentors on open-source projects. I co-administer two of its organizations: Machine Learning for Science (ML4SCI) since 2021 and HumanAI since 2024. In 2021 I coordinated 19 ML4SCI projects applying machine learning to scientific research, including quantum generative models and quantum convolutional neural networks for physics data. That year ML4SCI had 5% of all projects submitted to the program.
2016–2022 · Training CMS physicists
Schools at Fermilab’s LHC Physics Center
At the CMS Data Analysis School at the LPC, which trains collaborators who are starting out in CMS, I was a facilitator in 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2022, on machine learning and on a search for a hypothetical heavy Z′ boson decaying to a top quark and its antiquark. For experienced collaborators, I taught the machine learning course at the LPC Hands-on Advanced Tutorial Sessions (HATS) in June 2020 and 2021.
2018–2021 · Competitions
Machine learning hackathons
I co-organized the 2018 LHC ML Hackathon, a three-day competition in the style of Kaggle, where teams race to build the best model on a shared data set from the Large Hadron Collider, followed by the ML4SCI Hackathons in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 the competition opened to other fields of science and ran for three weeks.
2018–2019 · High school
CS4RI Summits
Computer Science for Rhode Island (CS4RI) brings computer science learning to high school students, with a particular focus on groups underrepresented in STEM. At its summits in December 2018 and December 2019, I prepared and delivered an hour-long lecture on machine learning applied to physics. More than 200 students attended my lectures in total.
2018–2019 · The public
Big Bang Science Fair
An outreach event organized by Brown University’s high-energy physics group, with more than 2,000 attendees. In September 2018 and September 2019 I was an organizer and exhibitor, and coordinated the LHC exhibit.
2023–2026 · At UA
Bringing students into research
I have recruited undergraduate researchers at UA’s Faculty Research Showcase (2023, 2024), and staffed the physics booth at the BCAS Open Day (2026) and the department’s graduate recruitment table at SESAPS (2023, 2025). I also served as a judge at UA’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (URCA) Conference in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
