cv

A more detailed CV is linked as pdf.

Basics

Name Paras Pokharel
Summary MSc graduate in experimental high energy physics with background in computing and mathematics

Education

  • 2021.09 - 2024.04

    Burnaby, Canada

    MSc
    Simon Fraser University
    Experimental High Energy Physics
  • 2017.08 - 2021.05

    Washington D.C, U.S.A

    BSc
    Howard Univeristy
    Mathematics and Physics

Work

  • 2022.06 - 2024.04
    Graduate Research Assistant
    European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
    Worked as a member of the ATLAS experiment to identify elusive signatures termed Emerging Jets in the particle collision data using GNNs
  • 2019.06 - 2019.12
    Research Intern
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)
    Worked on the simulations of non-X-ray background radiation for then proposed X-Ray telescope - ARCUS

Certificates

Quantum Programming Core
D-Wave 2024-08-09

Interests

Physics
High Energy Physics
Quantum Software Development
Quantum Information
Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Communication
Computing
Python Software Development
Graph Neural Networks
Machine Lerning
Data Science
Data Analysis and Visualization
Cloud Computing
Statistical Modeling

References

Dr. Matthias Danninger
sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/mdanning.html
Dr. James Lindesay
profiles.howard.edu/james-lindesay