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Jack Y. Araz

Presidential Fellow

Employment

  1. - Current

    Presidential Fellow

    City St George's, University of London, London, UK.

    • Director of the Quantum Science & Technology Research Group
  2. - Current

    Honorary Senior Research Fellow

    University College London, London, UK.

  3. Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Stony Brook University, NY, US.

  4. Research Fellow

    Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, VA, US.

  5. Postdoctoral Research Associate

    IPPP - Durham University, Durham, UK.

  6. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher

    University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK.

Education

  1. PhD in Physics

    Concordia University, Montreal QC, CA.

  2. Québec Inter-University Transfer Student

    McGill University, Montreal QC, CA.

  3. BSc. in Honours Physics

    Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, TR.

Teaching Experience

  1. Lecturer: Variational Quantum Algorithms

    UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, US.

    REYES summer program for undergraduate students.

  2. Substitute Lecturer at Undergraduate Level

    Old Dominion University, VA, US.

    Statistical Thermodynamics.

  4. Teaching Assistant & Lecturer

    IPPP - Durham University, Durham, UK.

    PHYS51915: Introduction to Machine Learning and Statistics

  7. Participated with the supervision of an MSc. Intern

    LPTHE - Sorbonne University, Paris, FR.

  8. Teaching Assistant

    Concordia University, Montreal QC, CA.

    Supervising a laboratory section and tutoring freshman students

  9. Co-supervised an undergraduate student

    Concordia University, Montreal QC, CA.

  10. Student Assistant

    Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, TR.

    Supervising a laboratory section and tutoring freshman students

Talks & Workshops

  1. Quantum Computing & AI for fundamental physics and scientific data analysis — 35 talks in 8 countries

    Apr. 8, '26 Invited speaker, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
    Jun. 4, '25 Invited speaker, University of Liverpool, UK
    May 16, '25 Invited speaker, University of Southampton, UK
    May 9, '25 Invited speaker, University of Manchester, UK
    Mar. 25, '25 Quantum Computing for Lattice Field Theory and High-Energy Physics workshop, University of Southampton, UK
    Jan. 13, '25 Invited speaker for QIS on the Intersection of Nuclear & AMO Physics workshop, UMass Boston, USA
    Dec. 2, '24 Invited speaker, University of Kansas, USA
    Jun. 6, '24 Invited speaker, University of Oxford, UK
    Jun. 3, '24 Invited speaker, University of Glasgow, UK
    May 30, '24 Invited speaker, University College London, UK
    Apr. 18, '24 Invited speaker for Pulses, Qudits and Quantum Simulations workshop, University of Washington, WA, USA
    Mar. 9, '24 Invited speaker, PITT PACC Workshop on Exploring Quantum Mechanics in High Energy Physics, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Jan. 30, '24 Invited speaker, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA
    Nov. 21, '23 Invited speaker, University of Florida, FL, USA
    Nov. 14, '23 Invited speaker at AI and Quantum Information for Particle Physics workshop, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
    Oct. 23, '23 Invited speaker, University of Stuttgart, GE
    Sep. 25, '23 Invited speaker at workshop: Probing the Frontiers of Nuclear Physics with AI at the EIC, Stony Brook University, USA
    Aug. 23, '23 Invited speaker, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
    Apr. 16, '23 Invited speaker at KPS Spring Meeting 2023, Korean Physical Society, South Korea
    Apr. 4, '23 Invited speaker at Maxwell Conference 2023, King's College London, UK
    Mar. 8, '23 Invited speaker, INFN – Sezione di Genova, IT
    Feb. 16, '23 Invited speaker at AI & QI Applications in Fundamental Physics workshop, Seoul, South Korea
    Oct. 25, '22 ACAT 2022, Bari, IT
    Sep. 6, '22 Machine Learning at GGI, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, IT (video)
    Aug. 15, '22 Boost 2022, University of Hamburg, GE
    Jun. 29, '22 DLEP Workshop, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, GE
    May 23, '22 Invited speaker, CEA – LIST, Université Paris–Saclay, FR
    May 20, '22 Invited speaker, LPTHE – Sorbonne University, Paris, FR
    May 11, '22 Invited speaker, LPSC – Université Grenoble Alpes, FR
    Mar. 20, '22 IRN Terascale, University of Bonn, GE
    Dec. 6, '21 Invited speaker, PPT weekly seminars, University of Glasgow, UK
    Oct. 11–15, '21 Artificial Intelligence for Science, Industry, and Society, UNAM, Mexico
    Jul. 7, '21 ML4Jets2021, Heidelberg University, GE
    Jul. 2, '21 Machine Learning for Particle Physics, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, GE
    Jun. 3, '21 Jets and their substructure from LHC data, CERN, Switzerland

  2. Interpretation of collider experiments & statistical inference for new physics — 15 talks in 5 countries

    Mar. 18, '26 Monte-Carlo support tools: future-proofing the bridge between theory and experiment, IPPP, Durham University, UK
    Feb. 11, '26 MadGraph General Meeting 2026, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
    Feb. 27, '25 9th Workshop on (Re)interpretation of the LHC results for new physics, CERN, Switzerland
    Jun. 18, '24 Invited speaker at the Reinterpretation & OpenMAPP mini-workshop, LPSC – Université Grenoble Alps, Grenoble, FR
    Feb. 15, '24 Electroweak and Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the EIC, University of Washington, WA, USA
    Dec. 5, '23 Invited speaker at the pyhf Users and Developers Workshop, CERN, Switzerland
    Oct. 12, '23 PyHEP 2023 – "Python in HEP" Users Workshop, CERN, Switzerland
    Aug. 30, '23 8th Workshop on (Re)interpretation of the LHC results for new physics, IPPP – Durham University, UK
    Dec. 12, '22 7th Workshop on (Re)interpretation of the LHC results for new physics, CERN, Switzerland
    Jul. 28, '22 Invited speaker, Oklahoma State University, OK, USA
    Nov. 25, '21 Computational Tools for High Energy Physics and Cosmology, IP2I, Lyon, FR
    Nov. 11, '21 10th Workshop of the LLP Community, CERN, Switzerland
    Nov. 8, '21 Publication of statistical models: hands-on workshop, CERN, Switzerland
    Jul. 5, '21 IRN Terascale meeting, Lyon, FR
    Feb. 15, '21 (Re)interpreting the results of new physics searches at the LHC, CERN, Switzerland

  3. Phenomenology of extended supersymmetric models — selected from 10 talks in 4 countries

    Jul. 2, '19 XI$$ ^{\rm th} $$ International QTS Symposium, Université de Montréal, QC, CA
    Mar. 22, '19 Invited speaker, IPPP – Durham University, UK
    Mar. 8, '19 Invited speaker, University of Southampton, UK
    Feb. 27, '19 Invited speaker, LPSC – Université Grenoble Alps, FR
    Apr. 4, '18 Invited speaker, Università Roma Tre, Rome, IT
    Mar. 28, '18 Invited speaker, INFN – Sezione di Firenze, Florence, IT
    Mar. 8, '18 Invited speaker, INFN – Sezione di Napoli, Naples, IT
    Mar. 6, '18 Invited speaker, INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, IT
    Feb. 6, '18 Invited speaker, LPTHE – Sorbonne University, Paris, FR
    May 3, '17 CAP Congress 2017, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, CA

Grants & Awards

  1. Presidential Fellowship

    City St George's, University of London, London, UK.

  2. Royal Society International Exchanges

    City St George's, University of London, London, UK.

    In collaboration with UCLA.

  3. IPPP Associateship

    IPPP - Durham University, Durham, UK.

  5. Québec Student Mobility Bursary

    Concordia University, Montreal QC, CA.

    In collaboration with Sorbonne University and INFN - LNF by Minstère de l'Énseignement supérieur

  6. J. W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship

    Concordia University, Montreal QC, CA.

Commissions of Trust

  4. - Current

    Referee

    for SciPost, Frontiers, Quantum Machine Intelligence (Springer Nature) & Physical Review A, D, Nature Comms. Phys.

Organisation of Scientific Meetings

  1. - Current

    Director of the Quantum Science & Technology Research Group

    City St George's, University of London, London, UK.

  2. Coordinator of the Quantum Computing Journal Club

    Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, VA, US.

    Initiated the Quantum Computing working group to conduct research on simulating field theories on quantum computers.

  3. 8th workshop on (Re)interpretation of the LHC results for new physics

    IPPP - Durham University, Durham, UK.

    Main organiser of the workshop.