Ye Chen
Associate Professor
Commugny, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYe Chen is an Associate Professor and experimental particle physicist with 12+ years of experience leading CMS detector physics and high-level trigger development across IHEP, CERN, DESY and international collaborations. He combines phenomenology training from a PhD with hands-on CMS software contributions—most notably producing and maintaining Monte Carlo generator fragments for CMS simulation workflows used in B-physics studies. Comfortable splitting time between Switzerland and CERN, he has driven both hardware-adjacent trigger design and software tooling that directly feed analysis and MC production. Known for bridging detailed detector knowledge with simulation accuracy, he brings a pragmatic blend of research leadership, code-level contributions, and international collaboration experience.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Graduated Stendent, Physics, Exchange Graduated Stendent, Physics at Leiden UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), High Energy Particle Physics, Phenomenology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), High Energy Particle Physics, Phenomenology at Shandong University
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (7)
simulations10
simulation10
simulate10
mc10
python10
configuration-file10
particle-physics10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cms-sw/genproductions
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Generator fragments for MC production
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ye primarily contributed to the development of generator fragments for Monte Carlo (MC) production within the context of the cms-sw/genproductions repository. Their commits involved adding and modifying configuration files (cff.py files) for specific physics processes, particularly related to B physics (BPH) decays. The changes demonstrate an understanding of the Pythia6GeneratorFilter and EvtGen external decay tools used for particle generation and decay modeling within the CMS experiment's simulation framework.
productionfragments
heppye/genproductions
Jan 2015 - Sep 2024
Generator fragments for MC production
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 9 months
productionfragments
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