Sergey A. Uzunyan

Senior Research Scientist

Education

• Ph.D., Physics, Northern Illinois University, 2006.
• M.S., Physics, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, 1993.

Research

List of publications

Interests

• High energy physics
• Research and computing

2006-present

• Prepared the Physical Review Letters publication "Search for Third Generation Scalar Leptoquarks" (published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 99:061801, 2007)
• Working on search for SM Higgs boson using D0 data. Responsible for the development, support and modification of the NICADD computing framework

2002-2006

• Conducted analysis of the D0 data: "A Search for Charge 1/3 Third Generation Leptoquarks In Muon Channels" (Ph.D., NIU, 2006)
• Worked for Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator and Detector Development since 2002.
• Developed the computational cluster for the NICADD detector and accelerator groups ($200,000 project)

1999-2002

• Member of the D0 collaboration, FNAL, U.S., since 1999
• Developed and implemented fast stub-finding algorithms for the D0 L2 muon Trigger (VME based hardware and TI DSP processors)

1996-1999

• Joined CMS collaboration at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Switzerland
• Involved with the study and design of the Very Forward calorimeter module

1993-1996

• MIS ITEP experiment, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
• Calibrated and installed the electromagnetic calorimeter for the experiment
• Worked out the algorithm for analysis of calorimeter information, coded and tested it