I currently hold a research fellowship at the University of Padova (IT), working on CMS. I obtained my PhD degree in particle physics in 2011 at the University of Padova. During my four post-doctoral years at the University of Padova and two at CERN as research fellow, I have been working in the CMS experiment. I was involved in the operation and the analysis of the performance of its tracking system based on silicon detectors, on the online events selection algorithms as well as some of the beyond the standard model searches and rare standard model process measurements from the LHC Run1.
I have joined the CMS collaboration at the beginning of 2008 and have played a major role in the data quality monitoring of the tracker detector and the tracking as well. I have held leading positions in the validation and monitoring of both the strip tracker and the track reconstruction. I contributed to the online event selection algorithms as well.
Since the successful completion of Run1 of the LHC I have been involved in the preparation of the tracking software for the event online selection towards the new data-taking period and the pixel detector upgrade in 2017, serving as convener and main developer as well. In addition, since the end of 2016, I am one of the main developers of the software for the trigger performance monitoring and I serve as convener of the corresponding group as well, managing and organizing the work of about 12 people. I present results of the trigger performance at the major conferences and I have been asked to present them at the first ATLAS-CMS meeting on the trigger activities in Run2.
The result of both the developments on the track reconstruction and trigger performance are reported in the CMS papers. I’m currently involved in the study of the tracking and vertexing performance in Run2, the developments for the Run3 and Phase2 as well. In particular, developments on both new Machine Learning approaches and new algorithms and software for an heterogenous approach are ongoing.
I conducted my physics research in CMS within the Higgs group, focusing on high mass searches, both within the standard model and beyond, in addition I contributed to the search for Dark Matter candidates in Run2, and since 2016 I also worked in searches for high mass resonances in the di-boson channel and di-higgs production. Moreover, I contributed to the measurement of rare processes as the Bs decay into a pair of muons in Run1. I contribute to the development of innovative techniques for the statistical analysis of big data and the development of multivariate technique.
My research interests lie in the development and operation of silicon tracking detectors and the corresponding software development for tracking algorithms, in the development and automatic monitoring tools of the online event selection, in the physics data analysis, in the machine learning and the frontier of fundamental physics.

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