Particle Physicist at @IJClab @ATLASexperiment at @CERN. #AI and physics. I have left this officially na$i platform, you know where, same handle.

Joined March 2011
Is uncertainties handling the ultimate roadblock for a wider adoption of AI in science ? AI and the Uncertainty Challenge in Fundamental Physics, 27-Nov-1-Dec with sessions on Uncertainty Quantification, Simulation Based Inference and more, indico.in2p3.fr/event/30589/
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Je viens de faire mon #eXit! L’exode de X est massif. Ne perdez pas un seul de vos abonnés. Grâce à #HelloQuitX j’ai inscrit 2265 nouveaux passagers pour partir vers #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Retrouvez automatiquement vos communautés le #20Janvier via app.helloquitx.com !
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Just created the “boomers @ Neurips” group in #neurips Whova app. I had to.
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I’m moving to the other BS side, same handle
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David Rousseau retweeted
Career update 📢—I’m on the job market for faculty positions! My work focuses on advancing particle physics 💥 and astrophysics 🌌 by creating innovative, robust statistical methods with AI 🤖. If you know of any relevant openings, please reach out!
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Today ends the #ML4Jets conference in Paris. Great to see the progress in the field from one year to the next, with no saturation in sight. Below some @quunihh students & collaborators (and, of course, beautiful #Paris) Many thanks to AnjaB & @dhpmrou et al for hosting this!
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Excited to share the first results using Neural Simulation-Based Inference (NSBI) techniques applied to @ATLASexperiment data! We measure the elusive off-shell Higgs boson with 3.1x better observation sensitivity than standard (histogram) analysis techniques! A thread: (1/N)
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I'm happy and proud to present the results of the #CaloChallenge! arxiv.org/abs/2410.21611 A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this effort in the past year(s)! 1/12
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David Rousseau retweeted
But making it happen in an actual experiment at the LHC took a long time. Check out the thread by @Aishik_Ghosh_ about his 6-year journey. And shoutout to @dhpmrou for being an awesome advisor that saw the potential for these techniques early on xitter.cf/glouppe/status/1851168…
They made it! @Aishik_Ghosh_, Jay Sandesara, @dhpmrou and Rafael CLdS pushed through the first neural simulation-based inference analysis @ATLASexperiment. Huge congratulations to everyone involved!
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David Rousseau retweeted
A thread on quantum interference and the 6 year adventure it took me through In experimental particle physics we sift out events from signal (eg. Higgs) processes vs the orders of magnitude more events from background processes…
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.@brucedenby is the author of the very first paper on AI and Particle Physics back in 1988, when he was a post-doc in Orsay ( @IJCLab @cnrs_in2p3) working in the @CERN LEP DELPHI experiment. He was almost fired for this! #HEPML @dorigo @KyleCranmer @GregorKasieczka
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AI and physics is not a solved problem ! Check out the #NeuriPS 2024 Fair Universe HIggsML Uncertainty challenge to develop AI algorithms measuring the physics properties of elementary particles with imperfect simulators, with controlled uncertainties. fair-universe.lbl.gov
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So @UnivParisSaclay cyber hacking , then #kirk floods, what is next, locusts ? #academiclife
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I was today's year old when I realised the Cerenkov light cone was *behind*, not *in front of*, the particle travelling faster than light in the material (from left to right here) . Completely obvious of course. Shame, shame. indico.in2p3.fr/event/33412/…
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10 years ago #OTD, @bingxu_ and @tqchenml quietly announced the birth of @XGBoostProject on the @kaggle #higgsml competition forum. Since then, XGBoost has skyrocketed in popularity to become the top ML go-to tool! 1/4
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… and excited to announce that the Fair Universe HiggsML uncertainties competition has been accepted in Neurips 2024 Competition Track ! (formal announcement soon I guess)
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David Rousseau retweeted
Looking for a good example of use-inspired research where a physics problem fosters a highly impactful general-purpose method? I’m not talking about MCMC or HMC, I’m talking about @XGBoostProject
10 years ago #OTD, @bingxu_ and @tqchenml quietly announced the birth of @XGBoostProject on the @kaggle #higgsml competition forum. Since then, XGBoost has skyrocketed in popularity to become the top ML go-to tool! 1/4
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10 years ago #OTD, @bingxu_ and @tqchenml quietly announced the birth of @XGBoostProject on the @kaggle #higgsml competition forum. Since then, XGBoost has skyrocketed in popularity to become the top ML go-to tool! 1/4
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