The focus of my research is on the experimental study of neutrinos.  Neutrinos are the most abundant form of matter in the universe, but these particles rarely interact with matter.  In fact, about 100 billion neutrinos from the Sun pass through every square centimeter of your body every second.   

My primary interest is to study the behavior of neutrinos and the antimatter version of neutrinos as they propagate through the Earth.  By studying this behavior, we can potentially understand why matter exists in our universe.  To this end, giant neutrino detectors that are the size of multistory buildings have been built (or are planned to be built) to observe beams of neutrinos that are shot through the Earth using particle accelerators.  In addition to observing the beam neutrinos, these giant detectors can potentially observe neutrinos that are produced by astrophysical sources.   Due to the fact that neutrinos rarely interact with matter, they are the only particles that can reach the Earth unaffected by the medium between the astrophysical source where they were created and our planet.  Hence, they offer a unique probe of the astrophysical processes that led to their creation.    

My group has been heavily involved in the development of CNN and RNN algorithms that are used to identify beam neutrinos that interact in these detectors and to reconstruct the original energy of the incoming beam neutrinos.  In addition, my group has been involved in searches for neutrinos that are produced by astrophysical sources by looking for activity in the detectors that are coincident with gravitational waves signals from LIGO and Virgo.  The detector data from these events are effectively pixelated videos that can be analyzed with image processing algorithms.