Eric Le

My research:

I work with the ATLAS collaboration in analysis and tracking. In particular, I am studying the properties of the Higgs, and developing the implementation of the Hough transform algorithm onto FPGAs for the event filter of the detector. I generally use ROOT, athena, C, and Python to develop these projects.

My expertise is:

I am supposed to be an expert on the event filter for the Phase II upgrade of the ATLAS detector.

A problem I’m grappling with:

I struggle to read documentation, especially C. It takes me a long time to understand a library.

I’ve got my eyes on:

Learning about FPGAs and GPUs. This is important because ATLAS is moving towards heterogeneous systems

I want to know more about:

I want to know more about how to write good code. I feel like the structure of my code is heavily bloated and hard for others to read.