For my Ph.D. thesis I am working on ATLAS, one of the general purpose detectors to be installed at the LHC at CERN. I have been investigating the sensitivity of ATLAS to possible scalar and vector resonances of around 1 TeV in WW scattering. I have looked at the semileptonic decay mode and studied the effect of the fast detector simulation ATLFAST on the cuts for this analysis. I have investigated how to optimise the reconstruction of the hadronically decaying W by varying parameters in the cone algorithm and have compared the results with those from the kt algorithm. I am now looking further at the use of the kt algorithm.

For my PhD I'm working on CDF experiment. CDF is one of the detectors operating at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab. During the first year of PhD I developed a C++ code for a new method, called the Hyperball algorithm,to use to the fullest the kinematical information of WH decays and correct the measured mass of the two b-quark jets. Such code is projected to be general enough to be applied to a variety of different problems, like an optimization of the b-quark tag rate matrix. I'm also working on tracking, vertexing and alignment for the CDF-II Silicon Detector.

I am a member of the STAR collaboration at RHIC .The subject of my current research is electron signal extraction in dAu data at energy √200 GeV using information from barrel electromagnetic calorimeter (BEMC) and time projection chamber of STAR detector. The identifying procedure, which I proposed, is emphasized on developing a number of cuts characterizing electron signal in the BEMC as well as in the shower maximum detector (SMD) which is the key part of the BEMC. Also, during the last experimental run at STAR I was deeply involved in activity supporting detector performance including BEMC and SMD calibration, quality control of data taking. My physics interests are related with charm quark production in AuAu- and dA- collisions at RHIC.