IRIS-HEP Fellow: Roman Petrov
Fellowship dates: Jun – Sep, 2025
Jun – Aug, 2026
Home Institution: National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
Project: Developing a Pythonic tool for smoothing histograms
Develop a user-friendly Python package that implements multiple histogram smoothing algorithms specifically designed for high-energy physics analyses, with integration into the Scikit-HEP ecosystem and comprehensive validation frameworks to help physicists reduce statistical noise in histograms while preserving underlying signal characteristics.
More information: My project proposal
Mentors:
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Mohamed Aly (Princeton University)
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Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Project: Overcoming Vertex Reconstruction Limitations under the High-Density HL-LHC Pileup Environment
Investigate and resolve vertex reconstruction inefficiencies under HL-LHC pileup conditions by characterizing algorithmic failure modes and developing targeted improvements to seeding, clustering, and fitting stages, validated against baseline methods on simulated HL-LHC datasets.
More information: My project proposal
Mentors:
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Ariel Schwartzman
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