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I am Yuriy Ilchenko, an experimental particle physicist at the University of Texas at Austin (UT/Austin). I conduct research on the ATLAS Experiment located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. I earned my Ph.D. in physics from Southern Methodist University in 2012, and became a Postdoctoral Researcher at UT/Austin in 2013.
Currently, I work on upgrade of the ATLAS Offline Data Quality Monitoring infrastructure. A whole series of changes and improvements are needed to get the ATLAS detector ready for the world-highest proton-proton beam energy of 14 TeV. In the parallel, I study sensitivity of the upgraded ATLAS detecctor to measure the Yukawa coupling of the top quark to the Higgs boson.
Among my previous accomplishments, development of the ATLAS Online Data Quality Monitoring Display which has been used for discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson, search for SuperSymmetry in a three letpon plus jets channel, precise measurement of the top quark mass in the ttbar dilepton channel on data from the DZero experiment at Fermilab, hadron jet energy calibration and jet purity estimation at DZero.
Profesional Progress
- Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin (2013-present)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Southern Methodist University (2006-2012)
- Doctorare Student, Odessa National University (2004-2006)
- Master of Science (MS), Odessa National University (2003-2004)
- Bachelor of Science (BS), Odessa National University (1999-2003)