Hi, I’m a Schmidt / AI postdoctoral fellow with a joint appointment at Caltech and Fermilab. I work on the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider on expanding our discovery potential in particle physics with AI.
I completed my PhD at UC San Diego, where I worked on deep generative models for particle physics simulations, searches for highly energetic Higgs boson pairs using AI, equivariant neural networks for model-independent searches, and more.
Last updated: 7th January 2025
Can you figure out what connects the different backgrounds?
- High energy Higgs measurements
- Generative modeling
- Physics-informed and equivariant ML
- Anomaly detection
PhD in Physics, 2019 - 2024
University of California San Diego <br> <a href="https://rkansal47.github.io/dissertation/"><i>Understanding the High Energy Higgs Sector with the CMS Experiment and Artificial Intelligence</i></a>
BSc in Physics and Computer Engineering, 2019
University of California San Diego <br> <i>Summa cum laude</i>