Stewart Patrick Swift

206 Kelly Circle, Altamont, NY 12009

Q stuflux@protonmail.com Æ 518-545-0990

EDUCATION
State University of New York Albany, NY
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics Expected May 2019
State University of New York Albany, NY
Master of Science in Physics January 2017
State University of New York Albany, NY
Bachelors of Science in Physics May 2011

KEY SKILLS
○␣ Scientific Linux ○␣ C++, Python, Bash
○␣ Large Data Systems ○␣ Computational Physics Methods
○␣ Complex Problem Solving ○␣ Bayesian Learning Algorithms
○␣ Boosted Decision Trees ○␣ MATLAB, ROOT, ATHENA
○␣ Neural Networks ○␣ Algorithm Design
○␣ Simulation and Modeling ○␣ Monte Carlo Methods

EXPERIENCE
ATLAS Experiment
Research Assistant September 2015 - Present
○␣ Worked with 3k+ member collaboration of international researchers at CERN
○␣ Made precision measurements of vector bosons and top quark pairs produced in association with bottom quark pairs
(V + bb and tt + bb).
○␣ Key contributor to the development and handling of bayesian likelihood fitting software, as well as the derivation of
systematics with bootstrapping method for the V + bb analysis.
○␣ Employed boosted decision tree for tt + bb analysis. Duties included: pre-processing of data, testing and training, and
optimization of hyper-parameters.
○␣ Active involvement in phase-2 upgrade of ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk)
○␣ Developed Region of Interest Photon Conversion Reconstruction algorithm. Resulted in significant reduction in CPU
usage (∼ 400 times faster) with no degradation in performance.
○␣ Active contributor to development of ATHENA tracking performance package
State University of New York
Teaching Assistant September 2013 - May 2015
○␣ Taught introductory physics labs and recitation sections

INVITED TALKS
○␣ Swift, S., "Tracking and Vertexing with the ATLAS Inner Detector in the LHC Run2 and Beyond", 6th
International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Crete, Greece, 2017

PUBLICATIONS
1. ATLAS Collaboration. "Technical Design Report for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Strip Detector", ATLAS-TDR-
025 (2017)
2. ATLAS Collaboration. "Technical Design Report for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Pixel Detector", ATLAS-TDR-
030 (2017)
3. ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of the ttbb cross section at 13 TeV", Submitted to JHEP (2018)
[arXiv:1811.12113]