Yue Meng

*** *** **** ***.***, Blacksburg, VA ***60 • 540-***-**** • acebmg@r.postjobfree.com

Summary Five years work experience in software development, hardware implementation and integration for an interna-

tional physics experiment collaboration (Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment). Established capabilities

in large scale ( 500TB) data mining, simulation and modeling. Solid skills in physics, mathematics and

statistics, such as PDE, linear/nonlinear regression and error analysis. Expertise in experimental R&D,

including design, development, manufacture, testing and technical support.

• Software: C++, Dynamic C, CERN ROOT, HTML, Perl, Python, SVN, MySQL, LabView, Mathematica

• Analysis: Monte Carlo Simulation, Modeling, Statistical Inference, Optimization

• Hardware: PCB Design and Debugging, LED Driver, High Voltage Technology, PMT Testing

Education Ph.D. in Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA May 2014

M.S. in Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Fall 2010

B.S. in Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Spring 2008

Professional Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment Muon Calibration System Development 2009-2012

Experience • Programmed web server-side code for embedded microprocessor (RCM3200 RabbitCore) based on TCP/IP

protocol to drive calibration source.

• Developed web-based UI through HTTP, CGI, GUI and HTML to achieve manual calibration, and

implemented LabView executable program for automatic calibration.

• Designed and tested calibration control board circuit (AC/DC coupling circuit, low/high-pass filter,

protective circuit, logic gates application) to produce LED driver and synchronized trigger signals.

• Created local database in MySQL, and global database by DSN to record physical parameters automat-

ically, maintained and applied the database.

Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment Data Analysis 2009-present

• Analyzed hundred TB data to extract radioactive isotopes events, calculated production rate by S/B

analysis, 2 minimization and error analysis (MINUIT), and predicted muon-induced background rate

for the future neutrino experiments.

• Developed an algorithm by optimizing a 2 function of a thousand PMTs time o set values to improve

reconstructed PMT hit time within 3.26ns time precision. Established a milestone for revealing a neutrino

physics frontier parameter, 13, with a 5.2 discovery significance.

• Simulated isotopes high precise energy spectrum based on decay theory, and built a non-linearity model

to suppress a systematic uncertainty less than 0.43%.

Academic The International Neutrino Summer School (INSS) 2012

Experience • Presented an experiment method to measure the Earth’s core radius based on neutrino matter e ect and

reviewed possible experimental methods to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy.

• Led the top group that won the Tutorial Performance Award for Most Prolific Responses in a class of

over 100 future experimental physicists.

Virginia Tech Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant 2008-present

• Took responsibilities for muon calibration system development and resistive plate chamber high voltage

system (high voltage module and distribution system installation and maintenance, front-end circuit

setup) in Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, funded by US Department of Energy.

• Lectured Foundations of Physics I/II laboratory for 60+ undergraduate students from engineering majors.

• “Improved Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay”

Publications

(doi:10.1088/1674-1137/37/1/011001)

& Patents

• “Observation of Electron-antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay” (PRL 108, 171803 (2012))

• “A Side-by-side Comparison of Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors” (DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.030)

• “The Achievement of Scientific and Technological Innovation about Research and Apply of All-Purpose

Financial Statement Manage System”, Registration No. Hei2007-0932, China

Academic Two contributed talks in American Physical Society Meeting (2011, 2013)

Activities Poster in STERILE NEUTRINO at the CROSSROADS Workshop (2011)

Three presentations in Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting (2009, 2011, 2012)

Abstract reviewer in 27th Annual Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium (2011)

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