Curriculum Vitae

Education

Bonn University, Ph.D. in Physics, 2005

Heidelberg University, Physics Diplom, 2001

Employment history

Université de Genève, Associate Professor, DPNC, since 2014

Yale University, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, 2014

Yale University, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, 2009-2014

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2009

ATLAS Leadership positions

Since 2020: ATLAS Fast Simulation Chain convener
2017-2018: ATLAS Inner Detector alignment convener
2013-2015: ATLAS Exotics group convener
2011-2013: ATLAS Top-Exotics sub-group convener
2010-2011: ATLAS Data Quality coordinator
2009-2010: Data Quality contact for ATLAS tracking group
2008-2009: Monitoring coordinator for the ATLAS Inner Detector software

Prizes, awards, fellowships

2013-2016: Cottrell Scholar Fellow
2012-2014: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2005-2007: Feodor Lynen Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2006: Ph.D. prize, Foundation of Physics and Astronomy in Bonn
2004: Heinrich Hertz Fellowship for research stay at Fermilab

Memberships in panels, boards etc., and individual scientific reviewing activities

CHIPP Executive Board member since 2022
Topic editor article collection on fast simulators and generative in Frontiers in AI and Frontiers in Big Data journals, since 2021
Geneva FCC Collaboration Board deputy since 2021
NeurIPS reviewer since 2021
Technical Program Committee for the ITEM workshop series, Ghent, Belgium, Sep 2020 & Sep 2021
Geneva ATLAS Group Team Leader, since 2020
Geneva ATLAS ITk Team Leader, since 2020
Geneva ATLAS Pixel Institute Board representative, since 2018
ATLAS Contact on Diversity and Inclusion, 2017-2019
ATLAS thesis award committee, 2016 and 2018
HL-LHC panel, SEARCH 2016 Workshop, Oxford 2016
Advisory board, ATLAS Collaboration Board Chair, 2016-2017
Advisory board, Machine Learning HEP school, since 2016
LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship Selection Committee, 2012 and 2013
Yale Society of Physics Students (SPS) graduate school panel, 2012
Referee for PRL since 2009, EPJC since 2014, JHEP since 2016, Frontiers in Big Data & AI since 2020
Editorial board chair and final sign-off for a number of ATLAS publications and conference notes, since 2014
Member of thesis committee (as external): Kim Albertsson, Lulea Universitaet, Sweden den & CERN, 2021; Ward Haddadin, Cambridge, 2021; Giorgia Rauco, University of Zurich, 2019; Simone Gelli, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2017; Juan Pedro, Universidade do Minho, 2016; Loic Valery, LPC Clermont-Ferrand, 2014; Antonella Succurro, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2014

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Organizing Committee Institut Pascal Paris Saclay Learning To Discover, Jan-Feb 2022
Organization of Physics Applications of AI Day, UniGE, Nov 2021
PASC Mini Symposium: Applied Cutting-Edge Machine Learning in Cosmology and Particle Physics, Geneva, 2020 (postponed to Jul 2021 due to COVID-19)
Organizing Committee AMLD track series “AI & Physics”, EPFL, Jan 2020 & Sep 2021
PASC Mini Symposium: On the Use of Exotic Computation Architectures in High Energy Physics Applications, Zurich, 2019
Organizing Committee of 3^rd Dark Interactions workshop, BNL, 2018
Series of ATLAS re-interpretation workshops, CERN, Jul & Sep 2017
Organizing Committee ITK Weizmann workshop on ML & HEP, 2017 & 2019 & 2022
DPNC Journée de réflexion, Chateau de Bossey, Jun 2017
Long-term strategy of CH HEP (BSM searches): workshop+whitepaper, 2016-2019
Organizing Committee of 2^nd Dark Interactions workshop, BNL, Oct 2016
Organizing Committee of TeV Particle Astrophysics 2016, CERN, Sep 2016
Convener of the "Exotics" session at the LHCP 2015, St Petersburg, Aug 2015
Organization of ATLAS Exotics workshop, University of Geneva, Feb 2015
Exotics Convener, FCC-hh 100 TeV pp collider studies (+whitepaper), since 2015
Convener of BSM session, ICHEP, Valencia, Jul 2014
Organizing Committee of Dark Interactions workshop, BNL, Jun 2014
Organizing Committee of ATLAS Exotics workshop, Eilot, Feb 2014
Organizing Committee of the top-charm frontier at the LHC, CERN, Jan 2014
Snowmass Planning co-convener, searches for new physics with top quarks, 2013
Organizing Committee Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, FL, USA 2012

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Café des Sciences – Physics applications of AI, Geneva (2022)
Keynote on ML in HEP at RSA Jahresklausur, St. Gilgen, (2019)
CERN2Market hackathon at CERN IdeaSquare (2018)
“Inside CERN” – a celebration of Swiss-Israeli Scientific Cooperation, Embassy of Switzerland in Israel: “Tête-à-tête” (2017)
Organization of the 2-day “nuit de la science” in Geneva (2016)
Organization of International Masterclasses in Geneva (2016, 2017, 2018)
Contribution to MOOC “Physique des particules – une introduction” (2016)
Summer research at CERN for more than 20 Yale undergraduates (2-months long, funded by Yale-endowed fellowships) and long-term research involvement in my group. Some of the undergrads (many starting already after their freshman year) returned a second and third summer to CERN to continue their research with me (2009-2014)
Contribution to “Particle Fever” (Documentary, 2013)
Day-long October Recess Field Trip to Brookhaven National Laboratory with 20 Yale PHYS 200 students in 2012 (additional Award from the Yale College Dean’s Office)
Variety of public lectures and colloquia
Supervision of variety of master and senior theses
Film about the Standard Model of particle physics which includes stunning artistic animations, and has now been viewed more than 900,000 times since 2010 (YouTube)
Part of an artistic study about ATLAS physicists that was exhibited in Bergen, Norway in 2009

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Complete list of publications (co-author on over 1100 refereed publications):

SELECTED INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES

Invited talks (on machine learning): UNIGE Research Center for Statistics seminar 2022; Computer Science Day, UNIGE 2019; Artificial Intelligence for Science, Industry, and Society in Mexico City 2019; ITK Weizmann workshop on machine learning & HEP 2019; Game of Flavours in Dubrovnik 2019; colloquium in Dortmund 2019; colloquium in Heidelberg 2019; ICHEP 2018; PASC 2018; UNIGE cosmology group 2018; ITK Weizmann workshop on machine learning & HEP 2017; ATLAS Machine Learning Workshop at CERN 2016; Data Science Workshop at CERN 2015; ROOT Workshop in Saas-Fee 2015
Invited talks (on BSM): IBS CTPU workshop on Exotic Top Partners in Daejeon 2018; Blois 2018; IDPASC Students Workshop UMinho Braga 2017; LHCP 2016 in Lund (on FCC); colloquium Oskar Klein Center in Stockholm 2015; ATLAS-D Meeting in Dresden 2015; GGI workshop in Florence 2015; LHCP 2015 in St. Petersburg (on FCC); Workshop on NP in the Top Quark Sector in Braga 2015; Flavour 2015 at MIAPP; Particle Phenomenology From the Early Universe to High Energy Colliders in Portoroz 2015; colloquium in Aachen 2014; NPKI on Jeju Island 2014; Naturalness at the Weizmann Institute 2014; Heraeus Seminar "Physics Landscape after the Higgs Discovery at the LHC" in Bad Honnef 2014; seminar at U. of Zurich 2014; LPC workshop on top partner at Fermilab 2013; UK BSM Higgs workshop at Durham 2013; Rencontres de Blois 2013; seminar at BU 2013; seminar at LBNL 2013; ATLAS SUSY workshop at NIKHEF 2013; seminar at U. of Montreal 2012; seminar at MIT 2012; TOP 2012 in Winchester; Chicago workshop on LHC physics 2012
Lectures: PSI Zuoz Summer School 2018 (BSM); MITP summer school Mainz 2016 (BSM); Alghero summer school 2016 (machine learning); Terascale school DESY 2016 (BSM); HASCO Göttingen 2015 (BSM); LBNL 2013 (flavor tagging); International Summer School of Science in Bakuriani Georgia 2012 (Higgs and BSM)

SELECTED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Information-theoretic stochastic contrastive conditional GAN: InfoSCC-GAN, accepted at Bayesian Deep Learning NeurIPS 2021 Workshop, 2021
Funneling flows: Exact maximum likelihood with dimensionality reduction, accepted at Bayesian Deep Learning NeurIPS 2021 Workshop, 2021
Generation of data on discontinuous manifolds via continuous stochastic non-invertible networks, accepted at Bayesian Deep Learning NeurIPS 2021 Workshop, 2021
Turbo-Sim: a generalised generative model with a physical latent space, accepted at NeurIPS Workshop: Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, 2021
ttbar+charm analysis (since 2021): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
ttbar event reconstruction with graph neural nets, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Missing ET with Deep Learning (since 2021): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Fast simulation chain with emphasis on machine learning [vCHEP2021] (since 2020): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Electron ID with Deep Learning and graph nets (since 2020): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Application of anomaly detection techniques to new physics searches using variational auto encoders [2007.01850, NeurIPS_ML4PS_2020] (since 2018): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Fast calorimeter simulation using variational auto encoders [ATL-SOFT-PUB-2018-001] (since 2016): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Addressing CPU-limitation in Run-4 tracking using machine learning [EPJ Web Conf. 150 (2017) 00015, EPJ Web Conf. 214 (2019) 06037, Springer Series on Challenges in ML, NeurIPS_ML4PS_2019, IEEE Big Data (2019), 2105.01160] (since 2015): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Search for unconventional signatures (soft and high multiplicity) motivated by a dark or hidden sector (2017-2019): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc and PhD student
Top charge asymmetry [ATLAS-CONF-2019-026 (2019)] (2016-2020): analysis design/discussion, supervision of PhD student
Machine Learning in High Energy Physics Community White Paper [1807.02876]
Dark knowledge: Matrix Element Method to be learned by machine learning (2016-2018)
Review of LHC Exotics searches [Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 90 (2016) 156-200]: editor
FCC-hh BSM whitepaper [1606.00947]: co-editor
Vector-like quark searches [PRD 98, 092005 (2018)] (2016-2018): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc and PhD student
Di-b-jet resonance search [PLB 759 (2016) 229-246, PRD 98 (2018) 032016] (2015-2020): analysis discussion/discussion, supervision of postdoc, editor
HL-LHC ATLAS pixel upgrade [2016 JINST 11 P07003, 2016 JINST 22 P07019; 2018 JINST 13 P02011; 2018 JINST 13 P12009, PoS Vertex2019 (2020) 024] (since 2015): discussions, supervision of postdocs and students, editorial help
Boosted top/W/Z-tagging using machine learning [JHEP 1606 (2016) 093, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2017-004, ATLAS-CONF-2017-064, EPJC 79 (2019) 375] (since 2013): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Search for W′->tb with high-pT top- & b-tagging [EPJC 75 (2015) 165] (2013-2015): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc and PhD student
Search for scharm with charm-tagging [PRL 114 (2015) 161801] (2013-2015): analysis design/discussion, supervision of PhD student
Search for Higgs to ccbar [PRD 89, 033014, PRL 120 (2018) 211802] (2013-2014, 2017-2019): analysis design/discussion, co-editor
PDF constraints from ttbar differential cross section [ATL-PHYS-PUB-2013-008] (2013): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc
Snowmass ttbar resonances & top-tagging [1309.7847; 1311.2028] (2013): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc and undergraduate student
SUSY at future proton colliders [JHEP 04 (2014) 117] (2013): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc and PhD student, co-editor
Snowmass BSM searches [1311.0299; 1310.0077] (2013): supervision of postdoc and PhD student
Machine Learning / Deep Learning applications to HEP problems (since 2012): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Search for stop with top-tagging [JHEP 1411 (2014) 118] (2012-2014): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students
Search for stop [PRL 109, 211802 (2012); PRL 109, 211803 (2012)] (2012-2014): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdocs and PhD students, editor
Generalization of vector-like quark searches [PRD 87, 072007 (2013)] (2012-2013): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc, co-editor
Multi-b-jet search [JHEP 1212, 086 (2012); PRD 91 (2015) 112016] (2011-2015): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc and PhD student
Search for stop with decay to charm and LSP [PRD 90, 052008 (2014)] (2011-2014): analysis design/discussion, supervision of PhD student, co-editor
Quark/gluon-tagging [EPJC (2014) 74:3023] (2011-2013): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc and PhD student
Charm-tagging and machine learning [ATL-PHYS-PUB-2015-001] (since 2011): analysis design/discussion, supervision of PhD student
B-jet cross section in association with W boson [PLB 707, 418 (2012)] (2010-2011): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc, co-editor
Search for NP in ttbar + missing ET [PRL 108, 041805 (2012)] (2010-2011): analysis design/discussion, supervision of postdoc, co-editor
Flavor-tagging: calibration, optimization, fakes, machine learning [2016 JINST 11 P04008] (since 2009): analysis design/discussion, supervision of master & PhD students and postdocs
Measurement of ttbar cross section [EPJC71, 1577 (2011)] (2009-2011): data analysis
SUSY discovery strategy for early data (100 pb-1 - 1 fb-1) (2007-2009): data analysis
Pixel commissioning, operation & software R&D [EPJC70, 787-821 (2010)] (2006-2011)
Data quality monitoring [EPJC72, 1960 (2012)] (2006-2011): discussions/design, co-editor
Inner detector alignment [JINST 3, P09004 (2008)] (2005-2010): data analysis, co-editor
Supervision of the ATLAS pixel module testing at LBNL (2005-2006)
Flavor-tagging at D0 [NIM, A 620 (2010) 400-427] (2001-2005): data analysis
ttbar cross section at D0 [PLB 626, 35 (2005); PLB 626, 45 (2005)] (2001-2005): data analysis, co-editor
H1 Odderon search [PLB 544, 35 (2002)] (2000-2001): data analysis, co-editor
Member of the ATLAS collaboration (since 2005)
Member of the D0 collaboration (2001-2006)
Member of the H1 collaboration (2000-2001)

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Tobias Golling