Particle Physicist
Lecturer in Computational Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Manchester, UK
Work
experience
Lecturer in Computational Physics
August 2022 -
University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Lecturer
November 2021 - July 2022
University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK.
Postdoctoral Fellow
October 2020 - October 2021
INFN and University of Genova, Genova 16146, Italy.
Newton International Postdoctoral Fellow
June 2018 - September 2020
University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.
Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow
September 2017 - April 2018
University of Basel, Basel 4056, Switzerland.
Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow
March 2017 - August 2017
Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Postdoctoral Fellow
March 2015 - Febraury 2017
Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Education
Ph.D.
August 2010 - March 2015
Centre of Advanced Study in Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India.
Thesis: Study of baryon number and lepton flavour violation in the new minimal supersymmetric SO(10) GUT (arXiv:hep-ph:1506.04101).
Advisor: Prof. Charanjit Singh Aulakh
M.Sc. (Hons. School) Physics
July 2008 -- May 2010
Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India.
Prizes and
Awards
04/2019: Co-PI of Oracle Cloud Computing Grant for Outlier detection (jointly with P.I. Prof. Veronica Sanz and co P.I. Michael Soughton).
11/2017: Newton International Fellowship, 2 years fellowship.
05/2017: Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Scholarship, 1-year fellowship (worked for 8 months, September 2017-April 2018).
02/2017: Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship, 3 years fellowship (worked for 6 months, March 2017-August 2017).
06/2017: CEFIPRA (Indo-French collaboration) sponsored my visit to LAPTh Annecy, France.
02/2013: British Council, UK sponsored my participation at Edinburgh India Particle Physics Symposium New Delhi.
03/2013: Best Poster Award, Chandigarh Science Congress, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, "Two loop renormalization group evolution equations of SO(10) NMSGUT''.
08/2010: Junior/Senior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission (UGC), India (5 years fellowship for doctoral studies).
02/2010: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE), India.
12/2009: Qualified Joint CSIR - UGC, National Eligibility Test (NET), India, for Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for lectureship.
07/2005-07/2008: Most Meritorious Student, Khalsa College for Women, Sidhwan Khurd, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
Research
Interests
Particle physics phenomenology to probe physics beyond the Standard Model focusing on the following:
-
Developing (robust) novel methods for model-independent new physics searches using machine learning (ML): In my latest work we propose a new anomaly detection method called ‘Anomaly Awareness’ and apply it to new physics searches.
-
Using ML for dark matter searches and for Effective field theories (EFTs): I am developing a ML framework to further advance the dark matter searches at collider and non-collider experiments. I am also building methods to improve the bound of EFT coefficients.
-
Proposing new observables for collider analyses: This aspect of my interest mainly concerns boosted phenomena search at the LHC. I am working on the optimal tagging techniques coupled with ML methods and also core physics novel observables construction.
-
Construction of realistic natural BSM models: Aim is to build an ultra-violet (UV) complete model following the bottom-up approach. My focus is on both the supersymmetric and the non-supersymmetric models based on SU(5) and SO(10) gauge groups.