Collaborators

PIs

Simonetta Liuti

UVA Faculty (PI)

Simonetta Liuti's research in theoretical nuclear and particle physics is aimed at answering the question of what generates the mass, spin and the internal spatial structure of nucleons and atomic nuclei in terms of their fundamental constituents, the quarks and gluons.

Co-PIs

Gia-Wei Chern

UVA Faculty (Co-PI)

Gia-Wei Chern’s research interests are in theoretical condensed matter physics and Computational Physics. His research combines analytical modeling with numerical simulations to study emergent phenomena in many-body systems. His recent research efforts focus on applying modern machine learning and data science methods to study emergent properties of complex physical systems and in particular to enable large-scale dynamical modeling of quantum many-body systems.

Yaohang Li

ODU Faculty (Co-PI)

Yaohang Li is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. His research interests are in Computational Biology, Monte Carlo methods, Big Data Analysis, and Parallel/Distributed/Grid Computing.

Michael Engelhardt

NMSU Faculty (Co-PI)

Michael Engelhardt is a professor of theoretical nuclear physics at New Mexico State University, currently working primarily on Lattice QCD studies of hadron structure. His work focuses on transverse momentum-dependent parton distributions (TMDs), and their off-forward generalizations, GTMDs, within the Lattice Hadron Physics Collaboration (LHPC).

Gary Goldstein

Tufts Faculty (Co-PI)

Gary Goldstein is a particle and nuclear theorist specializing in quantum field theory as applied to the structure, spin and scattering properties of hadrons and their constituents.

Huey-Wen Lin

MSU Faculty (Co-PI)

Huey-Wen Lin is a Taiwanese-American physicist and an American Physics Society Fellow. She uses supercomputers to calculate the quark and gluon structure of baryons and mesons. Her work helps experiments like those at the LHC and other nuclear physics facilities explore fundamental physics.

Matt Sievert

NMSU Faculty (Co-PI)

Matt Sievert is a theoretical nuclear physicist specializing in QCD at high energies, focusing on strong gluon fields, hadron structure, and experimental observables accessible through high-energy collisions at CEBAF, RHIC, and LHC. He is also advocating for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).

Marie Boër

VT Faculty (Co-PI)

Marie Boër is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, in experimental Hadronic Physics.

Postdoctorates

Debaditya Biswas

VT Postdoc

Debaditya (Deb) Biswas is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on quark-gluon structures, specifically in phenomena like Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and Generalized Parton Distributions (GPD).

Emmanuel Ortiz-Pacheco

MSU Postdoc

Emmanuel Ortiz-Pacheco is a postdoctoral researcher in hadron physics, with expertise in phenomenology, Lattice QCD, and, more recently, Machine Learning techniques. He has studied several physical observables related to conventional mesons and baryons, as well as exotic states such as hidden charm pentaquarks and the doubly charmed tetraquark. The latter in particular computed from Lattice QCD, where the main focus was on computing the energy spectrum of both isospin the isoscalar and isovector channels together with the extraction of the scattering amplitude which is related to its cross section.

Liam Hockley

NMSU Postdoc

Liam Hockley is a postdoc at New Mexico State University and is involved in the EXCLAIM lattice QCD subgroup. His research includes computing moments of Generalised Parton Distributions from first principles lattice QCD, and leveraging machine learning models to explore regions of parameter space which are difficult to probe with direct lattice calculations.

Kemal Tezgin

VT Postdoc

Kemal Tezgin is a theoretical physicist specializing in hadronic physics, with a particular focus on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and the internal structure of the nucleon. His research aims to understand how quarks and gluons contribute to the proton’s properties, including its momentum, spin, pressure, and shear forces. He is also actively involved in developing Monte Carlo event generators for exclusive processes, as well as conducting impact studies to assess how future data from the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) can improve our knowledge of the nucleon’s partonic structure.

Saraswati Pandey

UVA Postdoc

Saraswati Pandey is a Post-Doc at University of Virginia. She did her PhD in Heavy-Ion collisions at LHC energy regime from Banaras Hindu University, India. Then, she moved to Research Center for Nuclear Physics, University of Osaka, Japan as a Visiting Researcher where she was involved in the development and testing of new prototypes of Resistive Plate Chambers for better timing and position measurements. Her research interests are studying the properties and signatures of Quark-Gluon Plasma. At present she is keenly involved in learning and using machine learning algorithms to solve the problems dedicated to the mass, spin of nucleons.

Graduate Students

Tareq Alghamdi

ODU Graduate Student

Tareq Alghamdi is a Ph.D. student at ODU specializing in the intersection of machine learning and nuclear/high-energy physics. His research involves using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to enhance data analysis in nuclear physics.

Joshua Bautista

UVA Graduate Student

Joshua Bautista is a PhD student working on GPD Phenomenology, focusing on ways to extract GPDs from different scattering experiments.

Adil Umar Khawaja

UVA Graduate Student

Adil Umar Khawaja is a graduate student based at UVA. He is working in Professor Simonetta Liuti's group. His research is focused on the study of hadron structure and the physics of exclusive processes.

Andrew Dotson

NMSU Graduate Student

Andrew Dotson's research interests include Gravitational Form Factors, Soft Collinear Effective Theory, and Symbollic Regression.

Carter Gustin

Tufts Graduate Student

Carter Gustin is a third-year Ph.D. student at Tufts University studying hadronic physics and quantum chromodynamics.

Ho Jang

UVA Graduate Student

Ho Jang is a PhD student, interested in theoretical condensed matter and computational calculations.

Zaki Panjsheeri

UVA Graduate Student

Zaki Panjsheeri is a PhD student working on GPD theory and phenomenology. He is also excited about applying machine learning to problems in hadronic physics as part of EXCLAIM.