Andre Holzner Email & Phone Number

Zürich, Zh, Ch

Zurich, Switzerland

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• responsible for the 24/7 operation of the multi-terabit data acquisition system network of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (Infiniband, 40 and 10 GBit/s Ethernet)• analysis of Large Hadron Collider data, building parametric probability density estimates, hypothesis testing with profile likelihood methods• development of a classifier for photon identification in the CMS detector using deep and convolutional networks (using Lasagne/Theano, Keras and Torch)• top 25% rank in the Kaggle Higgs boson challenge• development of a Java web application for monitoring and alerting of > 5000 network ports• improvement of throughput of Infiniband network of the data acquisition system with custom routing tables by 10%• implementation of boosted regression tree training with SSE intrinsics• improved data acquisition performance by adapting a SSE assembly code to custom CRC polynomial• porting/maintenance of a Linux kernel module for a custom PCI data acquisition card

• responsible for the trigger timing and control system of the CMS experiment • development of C++ web applications controlling VME hardware modules, communicating via SOAP • invited lecture on frequentist methods for hypothesis testing in particle physics• firmware development in VHDL for Xilinx and Altera FPGAs• development of semi-automatic hardware acceptance tests using function generators and oscilloscopes

http://www.dpconline.org/knowledge-base/completed-projects/apa-parse

• coordinator of the calorimetry subsystem (cluster finding in 2D images) of the CMS experiment reconstruction software (C++)• teaching assistance for a lecture on data analysis in particle physics• data taking and analysis of testbeam data on a matrix of scintillating crystals read out by avalanche photo diodes