Associate Professor of Physics · University of Minnesota
I am an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota specializing in theoretical high-energy particle physics. My research focuses on collider phenomenology at the LHC and future facilities including CEPC, FCC, and muon colliders, together with scattering amplitudes and dark-sector physics. My current research is actively exploring and integrating AI/ML to deepen our fundamental physics research, in particular with jets in colliders and scattering amplitudes. By bridging high energy theory with present and future experiments, including quantum-sensing platforms, my group aims to reveal new paradigms in particle physics across scales.
Research
My group connects quantum field theory to experiment—from LHC and future collider programs to small-scale sensing platforms. We aim for signatures experiments can target now: Higgs-sector precision, robust BSM handles at hadron and lepton machines, and dark-sector models with concrete experimental pipelines.
High-energy muon colliders offer a distinctive electroweak laboratory: Higgs widths and couplings, top-Yukawa precision, and backgrounds from the neutrino slice. We develop theory predictions and analysis strategies tied to forward-muon detection and concrete benchmarks at CEPC, FCC, and muon-collider designs.
Hidden-sector models link collider phenomenology to high-intensity and quantum-sensing experiments. We compare EFT descriptions, lattice/QCD inputs, and experimental targets on equal footing—with recent focus on dark photons, axion-like particles, and millicharged particles in programs such as Dark SRF and ultralow-threshold sensing.
On-shell methods, momentum shifts, and positivity constraints expose analytic structure in QFT and sharpen EFT interpretations of BSM physics. We translate these tools into collider observables—heavy resonances, long-lived particles, and positivity-guided search strategies—for present and near-future data.
Publications
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News
Plenary talk at Pheno 2026 on new directions in collider physics. →
New PRL on novel Neutron Star constraints on symmetric dark matter. →
New PRL on improved dark photon sensitivity from the Dark SRF experiment. →
Promoted to Associate Professor at UMN.
New PRL on Neutrnio Slice at Muon Colliders. →
Wine&Cheese Seminar at Fermilab: Physics Opportunities at FCC. →
Talks
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