Daniel Li
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Li is a postdoctoral research associate specializing in experimental particle physics, currently working with the Velasco group at Northwestern University on the CMS experiment at CERN. With 12 years of experience and a PhD from Brown University, his expertise spans rare Standard Model processes, top-quark physics, silicon-tracker-based track reconstruction, calorimetry, and machine learning for data analysis. He has a strong teaching and outreach record—having won multiple teaching awards, led pedagogy workshops, and developed pre-college particle physics courses—demonstrating an ability to translate complex research into accessible learning. Comfortable at the intersection of hardware and algorithms, he combines detector development and reconstruction techniques with ML-driven analyses to push sensitivity in challenging searches.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Brown UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Arabic, English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
pyret7
compiler4
programming-language3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
dpcollin/turky_market
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
BrownSpaceEngineering/EQUiSatOS
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 18 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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