Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA)

Aritra Bal

Information

Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics (ETP)
Room: CS 30.23 / R. 8-15
Email: aritra.bal#kit.edu
Website: Aritra Bal, ETP

PhD topic

Thesis: Classical and Quantum Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection at the CMS Experiment and Beyond
Supervisor: Alexander-von-Humboldt-Prof. Dr. Markus Klute
Second supervisor: Dr. Benedikt Maier
Starting Date: 01 August 2022
Date of Defence: 11 July 2025

Publications

  • QINNs: Quantum-Informed Neural Networks, (arXiv) (in peer review)
  • One particle - one qubit: Particle physics data encoding for quantum machine learning, published in Physical Review D
  • Model-agnostic search for dijet resonances with anomalous jet substructure in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV, published in Reports on Progress in Physics
  • Machine learning techniques for model-independent searches in dijet final states, CMS-NOTE-2023-013 (to be published soon)
  • Distilling particle knowledge for fast reconstruction at high-energy physics experiments, (arXiv)(published in MLST)

International Conferences

Talks

  • DPG Frühjahrstagung 2024, Karlsruhe (Germany) VAE-based anomaly detection in dijet events at √s=13 TeV
  • CMS Exotica Workshop 2023, Rome (Italy) Unsupervised Searches in CMS - CASE, MUSiC, NPLM
  • CMS ML Town Hall 2023, CERN (Switzerland) Searching for New Physics detecting anomalies in jets>
  • DPG Frühjahrstagung 2023, Dresden (Germany) Deep Neural Networks for jet-flavor tagging based on different hadronization models