Assistant Software Engineer

Dennis V. Perepelitsa

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New York, NY 10025 ***@****.********.***

Research Interests: Experimental and theoretical nuclear and high-energy physics.

Education

Columbia University New York, NY

Ph.D. Physics Expected: May 2013

M.Phil. Physics 8 February 2012

M.A. Physics (GPA: 4.0/4.0) 18 May 2010

Thesis advisor: Brian Cole

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA

S.B. Physics (GPA: 4.5/5.0) 6 June 2008

S.B. Mathematics with Computer Science 6 June 2008

Thesis: (n,n ) Reactions in 63,65 Cu and Background in 0 Experiments

Thesis advisor: Joseph Formaggio

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant June 2009 - present

PHENIX Collaboration, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider New York, NY

Jet reconstruction in d+Au collisions.

ATLAS Collaboration, Large Hadron Collider Geneva, Switzerland

Jet reconstruction in P b+P b collisions.

Luminosity determination in P b+P b and 2.76 TeV p+p collisions.

Research Assistant June 2008 - August 2008

MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science Cambridge, MA

Performed simulation and modeling work for the KATRIN experiment.

Student Researcher May 2007 - May 2008

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM

Oversaw nuclear science experiment at the LANSCE particle accelerator.

Performed high-energy neutron-interaction cross-section measurements.

Undergraduate Researcher March 2006 - January 2007

MIT Picower Center for Learning and Memory Cambridge, MA

Designed hidden Markov model library including estimation algorithms and advanced

models from recent literature.

Analyzed neural data patterns in rat hippocampal cells during sleep and awake states.

Software Engineer September 2005 - August 2006

Dimagi, Inc. Cambridge, MA

Developed encrypted le-sharing software and oversaw remote server installation process.

Redesigned, automated and administrated company s internal build process and version

control system.

Teaching Experience

Physics Preceptor (Head TA) August 2009 - May 2010

Columbia University Physics Department New York, NY

Oversaw and administered all General Physics (F1291/1292) and Intro to Experimental

Physics (1493) lab sections, as well as TA grading and proctoring duties.

Teaching Assistant August 2008 - May 2011

Columbia University Physics Department New York, NY

General Physics I Laboratory (F1291), Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010

Accelerated Physics I (C2801, Fall 2009) and II (C2802, Spring 2010)

Quarks to the Cosmos (W3002), Spring 2011.

Undergraduate Instructor August 2007 - May 2008

MIT Experimental Study Group Cambridge, MA

Accelerated Calculus (18.01A/02A), Fall 2007.

Di erential Equations (18.03), Spring 2008.

Publications and Meetings

Neutron inelastic scattering and reactions in natural Pb as a background in neutrinoless double-

beta-decay experiments, V. E. Guiseppe, M. Devlin, S. R. Elliott, N. Fotiades, A. Hime,

D.-M. Mei, R.O. Nelson, D.V. Perepelitsa, Physical Review C 79, 054604 (2009)

Speaker, April APS Meeting 2008

Neutron-induced backgrounds in Cu and Ge

Poster Session, APS New England Meeting, October 2007

Measurement of Majorana background neutron interactions

Poster Session, Quark Matter, May 2011

Direct jet reconstruction in d+Au collisions at PHENIX

Speaker, High-pT Probes of High-Density QCD at the LHC, May 2011

Jets in PHENIX

Poster Session, RHIC &AGS Annual Users Meeting, June 2011

Direct jet reconstruction in d+Au collisions at PHENIX

Poster Session, The 19th Particles and Nuclei International Conference, July 2011

Direct jet reconstruction in d+Au collisions at PHENIX

Speaker, 28th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, April 2012

Reconstructed Jet Results in p+p, d+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at 200 GeV from PHENIX

Awards

Todd Anderson Teaching Award May 2008

Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Meritorious Winner March 2007

Final Project Design Award in Software Engineering Lab December 2005

Siemens-Westinghouse Competition in Math and Science, Semi-Finalist November 2003

Technical Skills

ROOT, C++, Python, L TEX, Linux, SciPy/NumPy

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Miscellaneous

Undergraduate Senator, MIT Undergraduate Association 2008

Executive Board Member, MIT Association of Student Activities 2006-2007

Coordinator for Information Technology, MIT Undergraduate Association 2004

MIT Nightline, anonymous peer counselor 2005-2008

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