Vita

Education

	1992	Ph.D. in physics, Brandeis University
	Ph.D. Thesis	"Search for the Top Quark in Events with a Lepton and Two or More Jets at the Fermilab Collider Detector"
	Thesis Advisor	James Bensinger

Employment

	2014-present	Visiting Scientist, Rockefeller University
	2004-2013	Associate Professor, Rockefeller University
	1997-2004	Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University
	1991-1997	Research Associate, Rockefeller University
	1989-1991	Research Assistant, Brandeis University
	1988-1989	Military Service
	1984-1988	Research Assistant, Brandeis University
	1983-1984	Teaching Assistant, Brandeis University

Honors

1982-1983

Belgian-American Educational Foundation Fellow, Brandeis University

Research Activities

	2004-present	CDF: Chairman of the CDF statistics committee from 2005 to 2007, and regular member since 2007. Search for single-top-quark production, measurements of the top quark charge and mass. CMS: Chairman of the CMS statistics committee from 2007 to 2009, and regular member since 2009. Work on hypothesis testing, combination of measurements, treatment of systematic uncertainties, the look-elsewhere effect, Bayesian reference analysis, and bootstrap methods. Application to searches for the Higgs boson and for contact interactions.
	1997-2004	CDF: Study of the high-end tail of the transverse energy spectrum of inclusive jets. Search for the Higgs boson in several channels. Search for electroweak single-top production. Study of diffractive J/psi production. Search for W-pair production in the lepton+jets channel. Combination of all the CDF and D0 top mass measurements. Convener of the CDF top physics group (1998-1999). Member of the CDF statistics committee since 2000.
	1991-1997	SSC, LHC: Development of high-pressure gas calorimeter technology for the next generation of high-energy physics experiments. Design and construction of calorimeter prototypes with three geometries: a stack of parallel plates, a bundle of straight tubes, and a bundle of wiggly tubes. Testing of these prototypes in Fermilab and CERN electron and pion beams. Long-term radiation damage tests on high-pressure gases at the Phoenix Memorial Laboratory of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. CDF: Search for the top quark in the dilepton channel. Search for, and observation of t-tbar production in p-pbar collisions using the total transverse energy H released in events with a W boson and three or more jets. Measurement of the t-tbar production cross section and top quark mass using H. Convener of the CDF top kinematics subgroup (1995-1996), and of the CDF top mass and kinematics subgroup (1996-1997).
	1984-1991	Construction and testbeam calibration of the CDF forward electromagnetic calorimeters. Design and assembly of the CDF gas gain monitoring system, and writing of the online data acquisition software. Search for the top quark in CDF Run 0 data, in the electron+jets and muon+jets channels.

Synergistic Activities

• Referee for Annals of Applied Statistics, Cambridge University Press, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Computer Physics Communications, European Physics Journal C, Journal of Instrumentation, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, PhyStat Workshop Proceedings, the Particle Data Group's Review of Particle Physics (Statistics), Synthese, and Technometrics.
  Named "one of the most valued reviewers of 2014" by Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Section A.
• Lectured on statistics at various schools: INFN School of Statistics 2013 (Vietri sul Mare, Italy), US CMS JTerm III (Fermilab), Terascale Statistics Tools School (DESY), Taller de Altas Energias 2008 (Madrid, Spain), TASI 2008 (Boulder, CO).
• Authored chapter 4 on "Interval Estimation" for the book "A practical guide to data analysis in high-energy physics," edited by O. Behnke, K. Kroeninger, T. Schoerner-Sadenius and G. Schott, Wiley (2013).
• Mentored high-school students for the Rockefeller university outreach program.