Jussi Viinikainen
Postdoctoral Researcher at Vanderbilt University
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJussi Viinikainen is a postdoctoral researcher with a decade of hands-on experience in experimental heavy-ion physics, currently studying parton energy loss in quark–gluon plasma with the CMS experiment at CERN. He combines deep expertise in data analysis, firmware/FPGA development (VHDL) and detector trigger commissioning—skills honed during a PhD with ALICE and extended through postdocs at UIC and Vanderbilt. Equally comfortable in the lab and at the analysis workstation, he has split major portions of his career between CERN and academia, delivering both hardware systems and physics results. A natural communicator and award-winning presenter, he enjoys tackling hard problems by crafting clever code and building new solutions, and he’s intrigued by cross-disciplinary challenges such as autonomy and real-world system integration.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics at University of Jyväskylä
English, Finnish, French, Swedish
Github Skills (11)
cockpit10
wolfram-language10
edtech10
physics10
backbonejs10
ansible-collections10
jet9
cms9
alice9
python8
code-analysis4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jusaviin/cmssw
Sep 2018 - Feb 2025
CMS Offline Software
Contributions:47 pushes, 62 branches in 6 years 6 months
cmsweb-appcockpitansible-collectionsoffline
jusaviin/cmsDijetAnalysis
Apr 2018 - Mar 2023
Analysis code for leading-subleading jet analysis for CMS data
Contributions:2 PRs, 475 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years
cmsjetcode-analysis
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