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 3rd 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 2nd 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):
- https://inspirehep.net/literature?&q=find%20a%20tobias%20golling
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8535-6687
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)