Saptaparna Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor at DESY
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSaptaparna Bhattacharya is an assistant professor of physics at Southern Methodist University, conducting detector R&D and exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. A long-time member of the CMS collaboration at CERN, she is transitioning to ATLAS while continuing to contribute to CMS instrumentation and analysis. Based in Evanston, Illinois, her career includes a Humboldt Fellowship at DESY and a decade as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University, following a PhD from Brown University. In software, she helps shape Monte Carlo production for CMS by developing generator fragments for Pythia8 in the cms-sw/genproductions repository, enabling targeted datasets for specific processes. An active communicator and educator, she combines talks and mentorship with hands-on code work, reflecting a practical, production-oriented approach to high-energy physics. Off the clock, she enjoys plotting and, in her downtime, embraces Pokemon-catching as a playful nod to her curious approach to science.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at Brown University
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Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cms-sw/genproductions
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Generator fragments for MC production
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 46 commits, 63 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Saptaparna's contributions primarily revolve around generating generator fragments for Monte Carlo (MC) production. These fragments appear to be Python configuration files (.py) that define parameters for the Pythia8 event generator within the context of the CMS experiment. The changes involve modifying event generation parameters, cross-sections, and decay modes, tailoring simulations for different physics processes like RSGravToEEMuMu and GluGluSpin0ToZGamma. The impact of these changes is enabling the generation of specific datasets used in the experiment's analysis.
productionfragments
Saptaparna/FastTiming
Mar 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:104 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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