Oz Amram

I’m Oz, a postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab working on the intersection of AI and particle physics.

I’m a part of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. CMS tries to understand what the fundamental building blocks of the universe are and how they interact, both by measuring the properties of the particles we know about, like the Higgs boson, and by looking for new particles. I am particularly interested in ways in which AI can help us in this quest.

My current research focuses novel model independent searches and data-collection strategies (triggers) for new particles based on anomaly detection, and using generative AI for fast simulations of particle interactions in calorimeters. Previously I also worked on precision electroweak measurements and various aspects of the CMS pixel detector.

I completed my PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 2022. My thesis was titled “Searching for Anomalies in Proton-Proton Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider”.

I semi-regularly write for ParticleBites, which summarizes recent particle physics papers at the undergraduate level. You can read some of my recent posts here.

I also have a non-physics related blog I keep meaning to get back to EthicalAnalysis.