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cv	Michael Hedges's CV

Michael Hedges

High-Energy Physicist

hedges7@purdue.edu | My Github Page

Currently

Postdoctoral associate at Purdue University.

Specialized in

Data analysis & techniques, high-energy lepton collider commissioning, beam-induced backgrounds, neutral particle detection.

Research interests

Developing machine learning/artifical intelligence algorithms for scientific analyses, intensity frontier physics, quarkonium spectroscopy & NRQCD, semi-leptonic B decays

Education

2012-2018 University of Hawaii at Manoa

• PhD Physics

2007-2011 Boston University

• BA Physics

Technical Skills

Python/Scipy | C/ROOT | Machine Learning | OS X | Git | Linux

Workshops

2017 "Computational and Data Science School for High Energy Physics (CoDaS-HEP)" [codas-hep.org]

• CoDaS-HEP Agenda

Awards

2013 ARI Grantees' Conference: Best Student Presentation

• Title: "Performance Studies of A Prototype Directional Neutron Detector Using Cosmic Rays"

Publications

Journals

2018 P. M. Lewis, I. Jaegle, H. Nakayama, et al., "First Measurements of Beam Backgrounds at SuperKEKB" [in preparation].

S.E. Vahsen, M.T. Hedges, I. Jaegle, S.J. Ross, I.S. Seong, T.N. Thorpe, J. Yamaoka, J.A. Kadyk, M. Garcia-Sciveres, "3-D Tracking of Nuclear Recoils in a Miniature Time Projection Chamber" [arXiv:1407.7013]

I. Jaegle, S. E. Vahsen, et al., "High resolution 3D Tracking in a TPC with Pixel Readout" [in preparation].