Souvik Chattopadhay

Experimental Physicist with 5+ years of research experience applying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to high-energy physics instrumentation, detector development, and data analysis. Experienced in detector electronics, data acquisition systems, and scientific software development using C++, Python, and ROOT. Seeking an Assistant Professor position to teach Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning, mentor students, and develop interdisciplinary research programs with both scientific and industrial applications.

Sandwich Ph.D Student - GSI, FAIR - Germany

(2025-02 - 2025-07)

• Participated in 3 beamtime experiments in mCBM
• Tested straw-tube detector modules under real beam conditions
• Evaluated detector stability, performance such as spill structure, time correlation, channel correlation efficiency study
• Developed an online-capable Quality Assurance (QA) algorithm within CBMROOT

Senior Research Fellow (Thesis Submitted) - VECC (Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India) - Kolkata

(2021-04)

Ph.D Researcher - FAIR - Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment (CBM) Collaboration

(2021-04 - 2026-08)

• Developed, integrated, and characterized Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detectors for the CBM experiment, including detector testing and validation at CERN and GSI
• Conducted detector fabrication, calibration, data acquisition, and performance evaluation during laboratory, beam-test, and irradiation campaigns at GIF++ (CERN) and mCBM (GSI)
• Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques (DNN, CNN, XGBoost) to address challenging physics problems, improving signal identification, background rejection, and data-analysis performance
• Developed data acquisition (DAQ) systems for detector characterization and laboratory test setups
• Analyzed large-scale experimental datasets to identify background sources, improve detector performance, and support data-driven decision making
• Designed and executed beam-test campaigns, including detector integration, alignment, triggering, synchronization, and data acquisition
• Contributed to R&D of advanced detector technologies, including straw-tube detectors, silicon detectors for high-rate particle tracking applications in next-generation experiments

Project JRF - Indian Statistical Institute - Kolkata

(2020-02 - 2020-11)

Conducted Multi-scale analysis, multivariate analysis using Rank Order distribution on India's socio-economic conditions using census data.

Ph.D.

• Physics - Homi Bhabha National Institute (2021-04 - 2026-08)

M.Sc.

• Physics - Jadavpur University (2017-07 - 2019-08)

B.Sc.

• Physics - Jadavpur University (2014-07 - 2017-08)

Higher Secondary (Class XII – Science) - Science - WBCHSE (2014 - 2014)

Secondary (Class X) - General - WBBSE (2012 - 2012)