It's time to shine a light on the 2023 CMS award winners! Each year, the CMS Award committee recognises outstanding contributions from members of the CMS Collaboration, honouring their dedication to the performance of CMS sub-detectors and, therefore, the CMS experiment!
This year, we'd like to extend a special recognition to the RD53 Collaboration. This dedicated group is responsible for the development of the ATLAS and CMS phase2 inner tracker readout chips. For the CMS project, this vital chip is known as the CROC.
“The success of the CMS experiment depends on its collaborators and on their commitment. The CMS awards celebrate this year the hard work that was done by our collaborators both on the operations and on the upgrades to ensure the success of the present and future detector.” - CMS Awards Committee chairs.
These are the fifty CMS members who were recognised for their remarkable contribution during 2023:
Alexey Shevelev - For his outstanding and diverse contributions to the operation, performance improvements and upgrade for the BRIL system and to the online and offline luminosity measurement in CMS.
Igor Azhgirey - For his sustained leading contribution to the understanding of the radiation environment in the CMS cavern and for mentoring the CMS radiation simulation team.
Antonin Dvorak - For his outstanding contribution to the online system administration and prompt interventions at P5.
Kathryn Coldham - For her exemplary and inspiring leadership in chairing the CMS Young Scientists committee and organizing a rich and fruitful program for the young scientists in CMS.
Abhirami Harilal - For the constant and effective commitment as responsible of ECAL DQM and the development of Machine Learning techniques for the automatic problem detection in ECAL.
Patricia Rebello Teles - For outstanding performance managing the ECAL Prompt Feedback Group during the 2022 and 2023 Runs, as well as important contributions to the ECAL data certification.
Roberta Bianco - For exceptional contributions to the development and commissioning of the ECAL Enforneur.
Tatyana Dimova - For outstanding and tireless contributions to the ECAL laser calibrations over many years, which have helped achieve excellent ECAL energy resolution.
Candan Isik - For sustained contributions to HCAL over many years, including commissioning and installing the Phase 1 upgrade electronics and leading the Prompt Feedback Group during Run 3.
Hui Wang - For exemplary leadership in the HCAL Detector Performance Group during a critical period at the beginning of Run 3.
Long Wang - For major contributions and leadership in HCAL Calibration and Conditions and Data Quality Monitoring.
Michael Krohn - For leadership and exceptional contributions to the L1 HCAL trigger during Run 3.
Alpana Alpana - For the development of a novel method to calibrate the energy of pion showers in the High Granularity Calorimeter and for her contributions to the dimensioning studies of its back end DAQ system.
Leena Diehl - For leading the commissioning of a novel measurement setup for well controlled High Granularity Calorimeter silicon diode measurements that help to inform the detector design and cooling plans.
Raghunandan Shukla - For his outstanding leadership in, and contributions to, the development of the High Granularity Calorimeter back end prototype system.
Andrew Loeliger - For his exemplary coordination and commitment to the management of the L1 Trigger offline software for Run-3 and Phase-2.
Peter Meiring - For his outstanding contribution to the Phase-2 Level-1 Egamma trigger algorithm and its implementation in firmware.
Piyush Kumar - For his outstanding contribution to the firmware algorithms and hardware tests of the Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger for Phase-2.
Sioni Summers - For his crucial contributions to Phase-2 upgrade Level-1 Trigger algorithm firmware development, including machine inference in FPGAs.
Amrutha Krishna - For her crucial and sustained contribution to the testing and validation of the thermal management of the BTL detector.
Abhishek Datta - For leadership roles in design, construction, and integration of the electronics for the new ME0 GEM muon detectors and its associated software and as L2 Coordinator for GEM electronics.
Aleksandar Aleksandrov - For outstanding contributions to the RPC Detector Consolidation and Operation.
Alexey Kamenev - For leadership of the CSC ME1/1 chamber electronics refurbishment during LS2 and CSC beam tests.
Hans Reithler - For outstanding contributions to the CMS muon system during more than 30 years.
Andrea Valenzuela Ramirez - For excellence and dedication to the area of core software.
Carlos Erice - For the innovative development of a vertex reconstruction algorithm suitable for heterogeneous computing architectures.
German Felix Giraldo Villa - For excellence and dedication to data taking operations at the Tier-0 during Run 3.
Saptaparna Bhattacharya - For inspirational work in the CMS MC Generator group.
Martin Gastal - For his highly impactful role in expanding CMS global network of members and creating rich opportunities for students and researchers from MENA and other regions.
Anna Benecke - For crucial contributions in developing fat-jet and pileup mitigation algorithms and dynamic and effective leadership of the CMS jet and missing energy group.
Shin-Shan “Eiko” Yu - For outstanding and sustained contributions to the data quality monitoring and data certification group in the ongoing Run 3 data-taking.
Tamás Álmos Vámi - For essential and original contributions to alignment, calibration, and database group towards Run 3 preparation and during the 2022 and 2023 data-taking.
Claire Lee - For huge support in CMS P5 operations as shifter, spending days and nights to allow smooth data taking and commissioning.
Jan Lukas Spah - For huge support in CMS P5 operations as shifter, spending days and nights to allow smooth data taking and commissioning.
Jose Antonio Reyes Vega - For his paramount contribution to the RPC Run Condition Data Automation with instantaneous functional correlations of main RPC characteristics to environmental and LHC luminosity conditions.
Karlis Dreimanis - For great support and enthusiasm in CMS P5 operations as Run Field Manager.
Antje Behrens - For leading the survey team, whose high quality work, engagement and flexibility ensured commissioning of many parts of CMS and a safe opening and closing of CMS, and guaranteed a precise knowledge of the position of all detector components.
Lucie Scandella - For excellent work in the survey team, whose high quality work, engagement and flexibility ensured commissioning of many parts of CMS and a safe opening and closing of CMS, and guaranteed a precise knowledge of the position of all detector components.
Noemi Beni - For excellent work in the survey team, whose high quality work, engagement and flexibility ensured commissioning of many parts of CMS and a safe opening and closing of CMS, and guaranteed a precise knowledge of the position of all detector components.
Abbas Hassani - For dedicated and exceptional service to maintaining the PIXEL DAQ system.
Clement Haas - For outstanding contributions to the first TB2S ladder integration.
Henriette Aarup Petersen - For outstanding leadership and commitment towards the tracker alignment activities during Run 3 operations.
Jose Monroy - For critical contributions to the development and advancement of technology for the HL-LHC inner tracker in CMS.
Lea Stockmeier - For outstanding contributions to the phase-2 upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker, in particular for a leading role in the Outer Tracker module integration tests.
Adelina Lintuluoto - For her outstanding contributions to HLT Scouting and online operations.
Breno Orzari - For his outstanding contributions to making HLT reconstruction run on heterogeneous architectures with Alpaka, and his support to online operations.
Won Jun - For his outstanding contributions to Muon HLT performance studies and online operations.
Arjan Heering - For significant contributions to the Phase I and Phase II CMS upgrades, in particular the development of silicon photomultipliers for use as photodetectors in the HCAL, HGCAL and BTL detectors.
Krzysztof Stachon - For professional and relentless monitoring and follow-up of the industrial development of low voltage power supplies for the CMS Phase-2 calorimeters and timing detectors.
Yuri Musienko - For significant contributions to the Phase I and Phase II CMS upgrades, in particular the development of silicon photomultipliers for use as photodetectors in the HCAL, HGCAL and BTL detectors.