Davide Di Croce

Experience

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  Rio de Janeiro State University

  Sept 2013 - Aug 2016

  MSc Student

  - Study of anomalous quartic coupling of two photons and two Z bosons with the PPS detector at CMS.- Teacher assistant for the Structure of Matter course (lab classes).

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  UAntwerpen

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2020

  Doctoral Student

  - Higgs to WW measurements in same-flavor leptons channel at CMS.- Higgs to WW event reconstruction at CMS with machine learning algorithms.- Teacher assistant for the Advance Programming for Physicists course (Bash, C++ and Python).- Software development for the measurement of the CMS tracking performance with muons.- Trigger contact: CMS triggers development, maintenance and monitoring.- Maintenance and tuning of the CMS FastSim framework for fast particle/detector simulation .- DAQ for CMS 2S front-end hybrid prototype (tracker detector for HL-LHC upgrade).- Data analysis of the beam test for the 2S module (tracker detector for HL-LHC upgrade). Show less

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  Google Summer of Code

  Jul 2021 - Sept 2022

  Mentor

  Machine Learning for Science (ML4SCI) is an open-source organization that brings together modern machine learning techniques and applies them to cutting edge problems in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).2022 projects:- Graph Neural Networks for Particle Momentum Estimation in the CMS Trigger System.- End-to-End Deep Learning Reconstruction for CMS Experiment.- Graph Neural Networks for End-to-End Particle Identification with the CMS Experiment.2021 projects:- End-to-End Deep Learning Reconstruction for CMS Experiment.- Falcon: Fast Simulation using Deep Generative Models. Show less

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  The University of Alabama

  Sept 2021 - Jul 2022

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  - Search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson into two light pseudoscalars with four hadronic taus in the final state.- Supervising PhD and master's students.- Teacher assistant for the Introduction to Machine Learning course at The University of Alabama and FNAL.

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  National Science Foundation (NSF)

  Sept 2021 - Jul 2022

  US-CMS Researcher

  Selected as the recipient of the NSF grant for US-CMS software and computing R&D projects, I achieved the following milestones:- Integrated innovative end-to-end deep learning algorithms into the CMS reconstruction code, utilizing heterogeneous computing and hardware acceleration devices including GPUs and FPGAs. - Developed end-to-end benchmarks and led the first integration of the end-to-end framework into CMS production code. - Conducted scaling studies of deep learning training and inference on heterogeneous computing devices. - Inclusion of novel end-to-end architectures, such as graph neural networks and transformers.- Implementation of the first end-to-end tau reconstruction. Show less

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  École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

  Aug 2022 - Jul 2024

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  - Contributing to the FCC project by developing Deep Learning surrogate models for beam dynamics.- Development of pioneer Active Deep Learning framework for Dynamic Aperture calculations to efficiently generate new simulations and autonomously improve surrogate models.- Implementation of XBOINC package into XSUITE framework (BOINC support for XTrack package) to enhance tracking simulations.- Supervising PhD and master's students.- Teacher assistant for the Introduction to Particle Accelerators course at EPFL. Show less

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  CERN

  Aug 2024 - now

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  NextGen Trigger project: Machine Learning for ATLAS muon tracking