Raghav Kansal

Raghav Kansal

Schmidt AI Fellow

California Institute of Technology

Fermilab

Hi, I’m a Schmidt / AI postdoctoral fellow with a joint appointment at Caltech and Fermilab. I work on the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider on expanding our discovery potential in particle physics with AI.

I completed my PhD at UC San Diego, where I worked on deep generative models for particle physics simulations, searches for highly energetic Higgs boson pairs using AI, equivariant neural networks for model-independent searches, and more.

Last updated: 7th January 2025

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Interests
  • High energy Higgs measurements
  • Generative modeling
  • Physics-informed and equivariant ML
  • Anomaly detection
Education

News

2025

  • Jan 5th: I started a blog at rkansal47.github.io to share some of my notes, tutorials, and more.

2024

  • Dec 9th: My doctoral dissertation has been approved! Read more here.
  • Sept 25th: Started a new position as a Schmidt AI postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and Fermilab.
  • June 18th: I defended my thesis! Recording available here.