Career Path

Employment & Education

2025 – present
Research Associate
School of Physics, Nanjing University · Supervisor: Prof. Zhang Rui
Developing the first software-based neutral hadron tagger for the BESIII experiment using a transformer-based deep neural network on EMC and TOF signals. The trained model is exported to ONNX and integrated into a dedicated BOSS algorithm for event-by-event inference within the standard BESIII reconstruction chain. Continuing quantum machine learning research for future HEP applications.
2022 – 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Supervisor: Prof. Fang Yaquan †
Built quantum machine learning algorithms and studied their application in High Energy Physics. Led the first published application of QSVM to Higgs physics at the CEPC. Continued as corresponding analyst on the ATLAS heavy resonances publication.
2018 – 2022
PhD in Particle & Nuclear Physics
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing · Supervisor: Prof. Fang Yaquan †
Thesis research encompassed: the first ATLAS search for heavy resonances in the 4ℓ + MET/jets channel (analysis contact); non-resonant Higgs pair production in four leptons; off-shell Higgs production and total width in ZZ → 4ℓ; missing transverse energy performance for ATLAS authorship qualification; multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC; and Higgs differential cross-sections at the CEPC.
2016 – 2018
MSc in Physics
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg · Supervisors: Prof. Bruce Mellado & Dr. Xifeng Ruan
Research on the search for Higgs boson pair production in the WW*γγ channel at ATLAS, and the impact of additional BSM scalar bosons in explaining multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC. Concurrent Teaching Assistant in the School of Physics.
2014 – 2015
MSc in Mathematical Sciences
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Arusha, Tanzania · Supervisor: Prof. Timothy Burns, Swansea University
Thesis on the theory behind Dalitz plots and the use of the EvtGen event generator for B-meson decay simulation.
2007 – 2012
BSc (Honours) in Physics
University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
Studied classical mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, and nuclear physics. Graduated with Honours.
Technical Expertise

Skills

Languages
English Arabic
Programming
Python C++ ROOT Bash PyTorch scikit-learn uproot Qiskit
HEP Frameworks
BOSS ONNX TRExFitter WorkspaceCombiner Pythia MadGraph Delphes
Machine Learning
Support-Vector Machine Transformer Quantum Transformer Neural Networks