CV

PhD in Experimental Particle Physics, University of Victoria, Canada

Supervisors: Rob McPherson & Michel Lefebvre

GPA: 8.63/9

Based at CERN (2012) for authorship qualification, ATLAS Experiment

Master of Engineering in Applied Physics, INSA Toulouse, France

4^th year: exchange semester on Fundamental Physics (in German), Humboldt-Universität Berlin

5^th year: specialization in Nanophysics & Instrumentation

Rank: top 5%

Academic Director, AI for Science*, AIMS South Africa

Resident Researcher in Machine Learning, AIMS South Africa

* MSc program funded by Google DeepMind: ai.aims.ac.za

Visiting Scholar, AIMS South Africa

McDonald Institute Ambassador

Canada's astroparticle physics network; sponsored fellow

Assistant Professor, York University, Canada, jointly appointed as

Research Scientist, Fermilab, USA

ATLAS Experiment, CERN & Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Fermilab

Postdoctoral Researcher, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

ATLAS Experiment, CERN

Graduate Research Associate, University of Victoria, Canada

ATLAS Experiment, CERN; based at TRIUMF

Technical AI Safety, Blue Dot Impact

6-week course with weekly facilitated discussions; certificate of completion

Collider physics, machine learning, advanced data analysis, statistical inference

Python (NumPy, PyTorch, scikit-learn), C, C++, ROOT, LabVIEW, Unix shell

University-level instruction, public speaking, science popularization

Academic coaching, student placement across international institutions

French (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), Spanish (highly proficient)

Co-convener of Training & Documentation, DUNE Computing Consortium

Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Fermilab; arXiv:2310.07342

Co-founded DUNE-Canada group

Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Fermilab

Observation of the Higgs boson production mode with a top-antitop quark pair

ATLAS Experiment, CERN LHC; Phys.Lett. B 784 (2018) 173

Led thermal validation and radiation length measurements of the ATLAS ITk silicon strip sensor support structure

ATLAS Experiment, CERN LHC; ATLAS-TDR-025

pMSSM reinterpretation of LHC Run 1 SUSY searches; featured in CERN Courier

ATLAS Experiment, CERN LHC; JHEP 10 (2015) 134

Automatic mapping of confidence sets to confidence intervals for intractable statistical models

With Prof. Harrison B. Prosper (Florida State U.) & Prof. Olivia Prosper-Feldman (U. of Tennessee)

Expected completion: December 2026

Physics-Informed Neural Network as solver of the photon orbit equation around a black hole

With Tlotlo Oepeng (formerly AIMS South Africa) & Prof. H. B. Prosper (FSU)

Paper submitted to the Machine Learning for Physical Science (ML4PS) 2026 workshop

Graph autoencoders for anomaly detection in particle physics

With Raktim Mukherjee (Universität Heidelberg), Prof. H. B. Prosper (FSU)

DUNE Computing Consortium

Led first R&D on an interactive analysis facility for DUNE using columnar computing

Re-designed and co-organized three DUNE Computing tutorials → Front. Big Data 8 (2025) 1497622

Modernized DUNE Computing wiki; designed & deployed DUNE's automated glossary

DUNE-Canada group

Secured 3-year NSERC funding to launch first Canadian effort (3 PIs)

Secured 5-year CFI infrastructure funding for a cryogenic facility for ArgonCube R&D

Observation of tt̄h (→ bb̄) process, ATLAS Experiment, CERN LHC

Developed interface for Matrix Element Method in official analysis code

Validated Boosted Decision Trees' input distributions across Monte Carlo generators

Led fake lepton background estimate, one-lepton channel → Phys.Lett. B 784 (2018) 173

ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade for High-Luminosity LHC

Led a team (3 engineers, 3 technicians, 4 students) to deliver first measurements of the prototype's thermal performance; developed infrared camera data acquisition interface

Led first measurements of radiation length (X/X0) using EUDET telescopes

Created custom entries of prototype's components in the production database

Search for electroweak Supersymmetry, ATLAS Experiment, CERN LHC

Main analyzer and editor of internal note of the search in the h → bb̄ channel

Reinterpreted the search as part of Run,1 summary paper in the context of the 19-parameter pMSSM

JHEP 10 (2015) 134

ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Operation

Software on-call expert during 2012 data taking (leading to the Higgs boson discovery)

Co-organized software expert training; created web-portal for shifters in control room

Developed ATLAS Online Software plugin revision to filter error messages

ATLAS Forward Calorimeter upgrade, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada

Instrumented a radiation hardness test for diamond sensors using TRIUMF's cyclotron proton beam; created acquisition interface with TestPoint

Developed and tested the data analysis framework with ROOT → JINST 6 P05011 (2011)

Pulse-shape modelling for IceCube, DESY, Berlin, Germany

Developed data analysis framework to measure the transfer function of IceCube Neutrino Observatory's photomultiplier modules, improving detector simulations

Afterglow tests monitoring, Hilger Crystals Company*, UK

Monitored scintillation crystals afterglow tests under X-Rays; created a PhP/MySQL database for managing the test results

* developed crystals for the BaBar experiment

French National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Toulouse, France

Experimentations on the scotch-tape method for graphene exfoliation

Postdoc Ryan Atkin, AIMS South Africa

Main supervisor; anomaly detection for ATLAS High-Level Triggers

MSc Raktim Mukherjee, visitor from Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Supervisor; investigation of Graph Auto-Encoder for anomaly detection for ATLAS triggers

Postdoc Tejin Cai, York University

Main supervisor; interactive analysis facility for DUNE on Compute Canada cloud

Now: software engineer at Black Duck

MSc Alfred Ferwerda, York University

Thesis committee member; CERN ALPHA Experiment

PhD Darij Starko, York University

Local supervisor; ATLAS qualification task, Flavour tagging group, CERN

Now: data science consultant at Wyatt AI Inc.

BSc Amin Jafarov, York University, NSERC USRA recipient

Main supervisor; searches for long-lived particles using ML

Now: Medical School, University of Central Lancashire, UK

BSc Anita Nasiri, York University

Co-op research project supervisor; long-lived particle event 3D visualisation in ATLAS

BSc Majd Salam, York University

Co-op research project supervisor; first ML classifier for ATLAS long-lived particle search

Now: PhD candidate, Theoretical Astrophysics, Western University, Canada

BSc Damith Deshan, York University

Co-op research project supervisor; automatic scans of chip pack labels for ATLAS ITk production database

PhD Jan-Hendrik Arling, DESY

Local technical supervisor; ATLAS ITk upgrade

Now: junior staff at DESY

BSc Anna Beck, DESY summer student

Supervisor; ATLAS ITk thermal characterization

PhD at University of Warwick; now postdoctoral researcher at MIT

BSc Maximilian Caspar, DESY summer student

Supervisor; ATLAS ITk upgrade, instrumentation

PhD at Universität Wuppertal/DESY; now consultant at Basycon

PhD Yasiel Delabat Diaz, DESY

Local supervisor; ATLAS qualification task, ITk upgrade

PhD at Humboldt-Universität/DESY; now software developer at Safetec

BSc Philipp Koenig, University of Victoria

Co-op project co-supervisor; ATLAS Higgs group

PhD at Universität Bonn; now senior data analyst at Syna

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, AIMS Cameroon

Graduate course; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 108 students

Skill course, required for all MSc streams

Introduction to Machine Learning (modernized version), AIMS South Africa

MSc course AI for Science; 10 lectures (20 hours) + tutorials (5 hours); 33 students

Co-teaching with Prof. Harrison Prosper (FSU)

Basic Concepts in Machine Learning, EASY-ML* Summer School, Nairobi, Kenya

10 lectures (15 hours) + tutorials (5 hours); 35 students

* East-African School for Young Researchers on Advanced Machine Learning; CNRS, France

Introduction to Machine Learning, AIMS South Africa

MSc course AI for Science; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 21 students

Delivered again in December–January for 10 students who joined late due to visa delays

Machine Learning by Hand, AIMS South Africa

MSc course AI for Science; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 14 students

Adapted content for students joining in January due to visa delays

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, AIMS Cameroon

Graduate course; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 35 students

Introduction to Machine Learning, AIMS Senegal

Graduate course; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 20 students

Introduction to Machine Learning, AIMS South Africa

MSc course AI for Science; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 16 students

+ 24 auditing students from the Mathematical Science stream

Introduction to Machine Learning & Data Science, AIMS Ghana

Graduate course; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 19 students

Learn the Math behind Neural Networks, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

One-day workshop: theory (3 hours) and practice in Python (3 hours); 22 participants

Open to all academic levels from 4^th year undergraduate

Machine Learning in Particle Physics, AIMS South Africa

Graduate course; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 33 students

Machine Learning in Particle Physics, AIMS Senegal

Graduate course; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 19 students

Introduction to Machine Learning, ASP2022*, Gqeberha, South Africa

Two morning sessions (6 hours); 40 participants

* African School of Physics: africanschoolofphysics.org

Life of a Particle: Stochastic Modelling in Particle Physics, AIMS Ghana

Graduate course; 15 lectures (30 hours) + tutorials (10 hours); 38 students

Co-taught with Dr. Samuel Meehan

Special Relativity and Introduction to Modern Physics (PHYS2040)

Second year undergraduates in Physics & Engineering Majors (online); 57 students

Special Relativity and Introduction to Modern Physics (PHYS2040)

Second year undergraduates in Physics & Engineering Majors (online); 64 students

Special Relativity and Introduction to Modern Physics (PHYS2040)

Second year undergraduates in Physics & Engineering Majors; 58 students

Autumn School for High Energy Physics, Maria Laach, Germany

Invited group coordinator; tutoring graduate students projects in experimental particle physics; 15 participants

TRIUMF Junior Research School, Vancouver, Canada

Invited lecturer: “The Higgs boson mechanism”; 10 Singaporean college students

TRIUMF Junior Research School, Vancouver, Canada

Invited lecturer: “The Higgs boson mechanism”; 10 Singaporean college students

33 students guided to MSc graduation, AI for Science

Selected placements:

Ahmed Nadir, Research Intern, ML & Global Health Network, University of Oxford; active learning for survey design

Antony Gitau, PhD student, University of South-Eastern Norway; AI for medical imaging

Benedict Ejelonu, G-RIPS Fellow, Tohoku University, Japan; AIMS–Tübingen Data Science & AI Fellow

Harlette Denebeye, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Researcher, Université Paris-Saclay/CEA-CNRGH; trustworthy AI

Josiah Kimani, AI for Weather Prediction researcher, AfriClimate AI; 2^nd prize poster, Deep Learning Indaba 2025

Koomi Toussaint Amoussouvi, AI for Weather Prediction researcher, AfriClimate AI; 1^st prize poster, Deep Learning Indaba 2025

Mushtaha El-Amin, Visiting Researcher, LiGHT Laboratory, EPFL; global health & humanitarian response technologies

Omer Ebead, Research Fellow, Cooperative AI Foundation; multi-agent privacy; intern at InstaDeep on MARL

Onintsoa Rakotondranisa, PhD student, University of Cape Town; astrophysics

Rodeo Toha, Head of data and AI at Grow-UP AI, Abomey-Calavi, Benin

Tim Hitge, Research Assistant, Imperial College London; surrogate models & simulation-based inference; paper + poster at NeurIPS 2025

30 students guided to MSc graduation, AI for Science inaugural cohort

Selected placements:

Abel Legese, Senior AI Research Engineer, Ersilia; open-source drug discovery

Carlin Foka, PhD student, Centre for Epidemic Response & Innovation (CERI)

Catherine Essuman, PhD candidate (from Sept. 2026), Ontario Tech University, Canada; Canada Impact+ Research Award recipient

Daniel Rajaonarivelomanantsoa, Research Fellow, InstaDeep; first Malagasy oral presenter at NeurIPS 2025; PhD, Stellenbosch University

Dariose Diffo, PhD student, Università di Bologna; AI & computational methods for astronomy and physics

Haingo Andry, Recipient of the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship, Stellenbosch University/CERI

Herman Tesso, Doctoral Researcher, Aalto University, Finland; first-author paper at AABI workshop, ICLR 2025; simulation-based inference & spatial statistics

Isaac Omolayo, PhD student, Universität Tübingen; contrastive learning for connectome-constrained neural networks, fruit fly visual system

Shâma Wache, PhD student, TU Chemnitz, Germany; inverse problems in medical imaging

Tiana Ramonjison, MSc student, Simon Fraser University/TRIUMF; dark matter detector design

Catherine Essuman & Pelumi Aderinto, AI for Science alumni

Led on my behalf the tutorial “The Math Behind Neural Networks” at Deep Learning Indaba, Lagos, Nigeria

Angel Bashyal, MSc in Astrophysics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Met at BCVSPIN 2024; connected to potential supervisors via McDonald Institute network

Recipient of Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship; PhD in Astrophysics, start Sept. 2026

Nishan Lamichhane, MSc student, Tribhuvan Vishwavidalaya, Nepal

Connected with Prof. Aaron Vincent, Queen's University, for honour's research project

Now accepted for a PhD in Physics & Astronomy at Queen's University; start Sept. 2026

Jeffrey Katabo, MSc student, AIMS Cameroon

Connected with Prof. Joel Zylberberg (CIFAR Fellow, York University); meta-learning for models of primate visual cortex (AIMS capstone project)

Now pre-doctoral research fellow, Freie Universität Berlin / Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience

Ufuk Çakr, AIMS–Universität Heidelberg research intern

DPhil student, Intelligent Earth CDT, University of Oxford; RL for wildfire response

Designed and led student onboarding programme, AIMS South Africa

Week-long induction: campus life, values, systems, cultural exchange, wellness walks

4 editions: Sept. 2024, Jan. 2025, Sept. 2025, Jan. 2026

Founded student clubs to foster initiative and campus life, AIMS South Africa

Student-run, with dedicated budget; adapted each year to cohort interests

2023–24: Arts, Fitness, Hike & Walk, Paper Reading, Running

2024–25: Board Game, Cultural, Dance, Media, Running, Soccer

Co-created formal lecturer contracts and tutor agreements, AIMS South Africa

Member, Fermilab Neutrino Division postdoc hiring committee

Co-chair, Physics & Astronomy Department Weekly Colloquium, York University

Member, Faculty of Science Award Committee, York University

Session co-chair, Sustainability Track, 42^nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), Prague

First dedicated sustainability track at ICHEP; environmental impact of HEP accelerators, detectors and computing

Sustainable HECAP+ Initiative

Creator of sustainable-hecap-plus.github.io; advocate for sustainable practices in high-energy physics

Judge, Best Student Competition, Particle Physics division

Canadian Association of Physicists' Congress, Hamilton, Canada

Elected Vice-Chair, Particle Physics Division, Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)

Session convener, Neutrino session, CAP Congress 2021

Co-convener, DUNE Training & Documentation working group, Fermilab

Institute contact (York University), ATLAS Inner Tracker production database

Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX)

Member of Management Team

South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)

Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)

Institute of Particle Physics (IPP), Canada

Reviewer, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NOW)

Dutch Research Council

Nominated reviewer, Machine Learning for Physical Sciences Workshop (ML4PS), NeurIPS 2025

Reviewed 2 papers

Nominated reviewer, Machine Learning for Physical Sciences Workshop (ML4PS), NeurIPS 2024

Reviewed 2 papers

Referee, Journal of Instrumentation

Nominated by peers

Referee, Journal of Instrumentation

Nominated by peers

Selected reviewer, DUNE Vertical Drift Conceptual Design Report

Chapter: Trigger & Data Acquisition

Editorial Board Member, ATLAS Collaboration

“Configuration and performance of the ATLAS b-jet triggers in Run,2”; Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 1087

International Masterclass “Hands-on Particle Physics”, AIMS South Africa

First edition hosted by AIMS; 25 high school students from 8 Cape Town schools

Organized in partnership with IPPOG; live conference with CERN

Siyakhula Festival, AIMS 20^th Birthday Celebration, Muizenberg, South Africa

Organizing committee member; 6-day festival, March 17–22, 2024

DUNE Computing Tutorial, extended version (online)

Co-organizer; 3-day format with interactive platform, quizzes and expert Q&A

Poster session organizer, TIPP 2021 (online)

International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics; GatherTown platform

DUNE Computing Tutorial, one-day workshop (online)

Main organizer; teaching basics of DUNE computing to new members

ATLAS Higgs & Top Quark Workshop (HTop), DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Member of the Local Organizing Committee

Founder & spokesperson, Commission Réussite, INSA Toulouse

Designed & implemented programme where students in difficulty choose a mentor among professors

Approved by administration as a dedicated commission; system still active in 2026

Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) (PI, CAD $125,000)

Next-generation neutrino detector for DUNE

Compute Canada Fast Track Competition, one-year extension (PI, CAD $23,339)

Compute Canada Resources Competition (PI, CAD $32,225)

Interactive Analysis Facility for DUNE

NSERC Discovery COVID-19 Extension (non-competitive, CAD $50,000)

NSERC Subatomic Physics Discovery Grant (Co-PI, CAD $465,000)

Neutrinos exposed: from the cosmos to deep underground

NSERC Subatomic Physics Discovery Grant (PI, CAD $50,000)

Higgs boson and top quark in ATLAS: gateway to new physics

York University Internal Research Fund, Startup (CAD $110,000)

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Shared with ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb collaborations (13,508 researchers)

breakthroughprize.org

York University Minor Research Grant & Junior Faculty Fund (CAD $3,100)

DESY Bonus Merit (3,200)

Thermal validation of ATLAS ITk prototype

DESY Bonus Merit (3,200)

First infrared measurements of ATLAS ITk sensor structures

DESY Postdoctoral Fellowship, High Energy Physics division

Nora and Mark de Goutiere Memorial Fellowship (CAD $10,000)

University of Victoria Entrance Award (CAD $10,000)

Nominated for Vanier Scholarship, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UVic

High Dimensional Problems for Statistical Methods in Fundamental Physics, BIRS, Banff, Canada

Invited talk: “Leveraging Machine Learning, and its limits” (co-presenter: Anthony Ozerov)

32^nd International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2025), Cape Town, South Africa

Invited plenary talk: “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Physics”

11^th Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP), Belgrade, Serbia

Invited talk: “Statistics on participation of emerging countries in LHC and other experiments”

30^th International Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC), Liverpool, UK (online)

Invited panelist: “Women in Science and Engineering: Should I stay or should I go now?”

Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP), Victoria, Canada

Invited talk: “Higgs boson couplings to quarks at the ATLAS experiment”

Conference on Standard Model at LHC, Berlin, Germany

Young Scientist talk: “Search for tt̄H production in the H→ bb̄ channel”

11^th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD11), Milton Keynes, UK

Invited plenary talk: “A new strips tracker for the upgraded ATLAS ITk detector”

Lake Louise Winter Institute, Alberta, Canada

Invited plenary talk: “Search for supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector in final states with leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum”

International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP), Valencia, Spain

Poster: “Search for chargino and neutralino production with a Higgs boson in the decay chain with one or three leptons final state events”

International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP), Kolymbari, Greece

Invited talk: “ATLAS results in SUSY searches for 3^rd generation squarks and electroweak production”

Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) Annual General Meeting (online)

Invited talk: “Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment: current status, Canadian effort & funding”

DESY Program-Oriented Funding (POF) Evaluation, Hamburg, Germany

Invited poster: “ATLAS and CMS tracker end-caps for the High-Luminosity LHC” (co-author Dr. J. Keaveney); official tour guide for Helmholtz Association reviewers

Helmholtz Programme Matter and the Universe, Mainz, Germany

Invited poster: “Anatomy of ATLAS and CMS strip tracker end-caps for High-Luminosity LHC”

TRIUMF International Review Committee, Canada

Invited poster: “Search for Higgs production in supersymmetric decay cascades with ATLAS”

VIP Visit, ATLAS Control Room, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Invited speaker for P. Young (Chair, TRIUMF Board of Management) & G. Patry (CEO, Canada Foundation for Innovation)

Canadian Association of Physicists Congress (CAP), online

Invited talk: “Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment: Review and Recent Progress”

Third Summer Particle Astrophysics Workshop, Queen's University, Canada (online)

Plenary talk: “The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment: DUNE”

Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference (WNPPC), Banff, Canada

Plenary talk: “Higgs boson physics and upgrade work with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider”

HTop Workshop, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Plenary talk: “Small backgrounds in the leptonic channels”

Preliminary Design Review ITk Strip Local Support Structures, CERN

Final presentation of results on thermo-mechanical petal prototypes; passing review

Forum on Tracking Detector Mechanics, Valencia, Spain

Plenary talk: “Thermo-mechanical characterization of Petals as Local Support Structures for the ATLAS ITk Strip Detector”

HTop Workshop, CERN, Switzerland

Invited talk: “Fakes and other backgrounds in tt̄H(bb̄) leptonic channels” (co-author J. Mellenthin)

LHCC, CERN, Switzerland

Poster: “Search for charginos, neutralinos and sleptons in one or two leptons final state events with ATLAS” (co-author R. Ueno)

ATLAS Canada Workshop, Vancouver, Canada

Talk: “Search for SUSY Higgs in the bb̄ final state”

Career Thursday, Qhubeka Youth Development Programme, Langa, South Africa

Featured guest; Q&A on experimental physics & AI in education; organized by Just Grace

Université Kongo, Mbanza-Ngungu, Congo DRC

Co-talk with Dr. Nour Skaf: “From the smallest to the largest: a journey from particle physics to astrophysics”

Dakar Academy, Senegal

Invited speaker: experimental particle physics to 200+ college-preparatory students

Neutrino Day, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota, USA

Keynote speaker at Lead's Opera House; VIP underground visit with YouTuber Physics Girl (Dianna Cowern)

Live radio broadcast for South Dakota radio about DUNE and Neutrino Day

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada

Invited speaker, Speaker's Night livestream: “What is DUNE? Embark on the underground telescope to pierce the secrets of matter!” [YouTube]

Science Innovation & Technology Speaker Series, Richmond, BC, Canada

“The Triumphant Discovery of the Higgs Boson”

Cafés Scientifiques, Alliance Française, Vancouver, Canada

“La triomphante découverte du boson de Higgs”; organized by the French Consulate

Integrative Think Tank (ITT), AIMS South Africa

Five-day industry-academia workshop; invited talk: “How I became a scientist: the backstory not read on my CV”

AIMS Cameroon, Limbé, Cameroon

“A journey inside matter: experimental particle physics with ATLAS and DUNE”

AIMS Cameroon, Limbé, Cameroon

“How I became a scientist: the backstory not read on my CV”

AIMS Cameroon, Limbé, Cameroon

“A journey inside matter: experimental particle physics with ATLAS and DUNE”

AIMS Cameroon, Limbé, Cameroon

“How I became a scientist: the backstory not read on my CV”

Université de Montréal, Département de Physique, Canada

“Half a year in Africa: AI, AIMS & opportunities”

East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR), Kigali, Rwanda

Co-talk with Dr. Nour Skaf: “From the smallest to the largest: a journey from particle physics to astrophysics”

University of Ghana, Department of Physics, Accra, Ghana

“A journey inside matter: experimental particle physics with ATLAS and DUNE”

AIMS Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

“A journey inside matter: experimental particle physics with ATLAS and DUNE”

AIMS Cameroon, Limbé, Cameroon

“A journey inside matter: experimental particle physics with ATLAS and DUNE”

Université de Lomé & CERME, Lomé, Togo

“The ATLAS Experiment at CERN: a detector, an analysis and an upgrade program”

International Chair in Mathematical Physics & Applications, Cotonou, Benin

“A journey inside matter: experimental particle physics with ATLAS and DUNE”

AIMS South Africa, Muizenberg, South Africa

“How I became a scientist: the backstory not read on my CV”

McGill Physical Society Colloquium, Montréal, Canada (online)

“Data analysis and detector development with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider” [YouTube]

York University, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, Toronto, Canada

“Sorting needles in a haystack and cooling a sandwich: data analysis and detector development with ATLAS”

David C., Oepeng T., Prosper H., “PINN-Slicer: Exploiting Rotational Symmetry to Solve the Photon Orbit Equation Around a Black Hole”

Submitted to the ML4PS 2026 workshop

Reinsvold Hall A., Skidmore N., Benelli G., Carlson B., David C. et al., “Training and onboarding initiatives in high energy physics experiments”

Front. Big Data 8 (2025) 1497622

Sustainable HECAP+ Initiative, “Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+”

JINST 20 (2025) P03012; www.hecap.eco

DUNE Collaboration, “Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC”

JINST 17 (2022) P01005

ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into long-lived particles in pp collisions at √s=13,TeV using displaced vertices in the ATLAS inner detector”

JHEP 11 (2021) 229

DUNE Collaboration, “Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector Conceptual Design Report”

Instruments 5 (2021) 31

Poley L., Sawyer C. et al., “The ABC130 barrel module prototyping programme for the ATLAS strip tracker”

JINST 15 (2020) P09004

DUNE Collaboration, “Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment”

Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 978

ATLAS Collaboration, “Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector”

Phys. Lett. B 784 (2018) 173–191

ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for the SM Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a bb̄ pair in pp collisions at √s=13,TeV with the ATLAS detector”

Phys. Rev. D 97 (2018) 072016

Albertsson K. et al., “Machine Learning in High Energy Physics Community White Paper”

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1085 (2018) 022008

ATLAS Collaboration, “Technical Design Report for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Strip Detector”

CERN-LHCC-2017-005 ; ATLAS-TDR-025

ATLAS Collaboration, “Summary of the ATLAS experiment's sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run,1 – interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM”

JHEP 10 (2015) 134

ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for direct pair production of a chargino and a neutralino decaying to the 125,GeV Higgs boson in √s=8,TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector”

Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 208

ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for chargino and neutralino production in final states with one lepton, two b-jets consistent with a Higgs boson, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in 20.3,fb^-1 of √s=8,TeV pp collisions”

ATLAS-CONF-2013-093

Axen D. et al., “Diamond detector irradiation tests at TRIUMF”

JINST 6 (2011) P05011

David C., “What is AI, what is it not, how we use it in physics and how it impacts… you”

BCVSPIN 2024: Particle Physics and Cosmology in the Himalayas, Kathmandu, Nepal

arXiv:2504.01827

David C., “Statistics on participation of emerging and developing countries in LHC and other experiments”

PoS(LHCP2023) 450 (2024) 062

David C., “A new strips tracker for the upgraded ATLAS ITk detector”

Proceedings of PSD11

JINST 13 (2018) C01003

David C., “Search for chargino and neutralino production with a Higgs boson in the decay chain in one or three leptons final state events with ATLAS”

Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc. 273–275 (2016) 2400–2402

David C., “New ATLAS results in SUSY searches for 3^rd generation squarks and electroweak production”

EPJ Web of Conferences 71 (2014) 00034

SA-CERN 15 Year Celebrations, iThemba LABS, South Africa

Invited panelist: “Fundamental Science for South African Development”

Science & Technology Week, Kinshasa, Congo DRC

Invited panelist: “Science and technology for sustainable development in Africa” (in French)

11^th Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP), Belgrade, Serbia

Invited panelist: “Challenges for emerging countries to join/participate in LHC experiments”

30^th International Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC), Liverpool, UK (online)

Invited panelist: “Women in Science and Engineering: Should I stay or should I go now?”

Screening of “Particle Fever”, Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada

Invited panelist with movie producer & Prof. David Kaplan

Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada

Panel speaker: “But ℏ? Particle Interactions in Physics and Arts: Artistic Transformation”

Village of Sciences, École de la Gombé, Kinshasa, Congo DRC

Introduced CERN and ATLAS to 10,000+ high school students; trained selected learners as booth animators

DESY Open Day (DESYDAY), Hamburg, Germany

Organizer of ATLAS exhibition & infrared camera booth; 20,000+ visitors

TRIUMF Tour Guide, Vancouver, Canada

Monthly tours for high schools, graduate students and the general public

ATLAS Masterclass, University of Victoria, Canada

One-day hands-on for high-school students; invited talk: “Data analysis with ATLAS at the LHC”; organized by VISPA

TRIUMF Open House, Vancouver, Canada

Volunteer at the ATLAS booth; 1,200+ visitors

ATLAS Virtual Visit, ATLAS Control Room, CERN

Lycée Liziba, Kinshasa, Congo DRC; girls' secondary school [atlas.cern]

ATLAS Virtual Visit, ATLAS Control Room, CERN

Malaika School, Lubumbashi, Congo DRC; free education for 400+ girls [atlas.cern]

Allan I. Carswell Observatory, York University, Canada

TeleTube series: “The Triumphant Discovery of the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider” [YouTube]

“The Drift” series, Sanford Underground Research Facility, USA

“What is so special about neutrinos?” on SURF's YouTube channel [YouTube]

Neutrino Day, SURF's Free Science Festival (online)

“DUNE scientists answer your questions” [YouTube]

ATLAS Virtual Visit, ATLAS Control Room, CERN

Europe Day Symposium, Vancouver; TELUS World of Science Celebration, Vancouver [video]