Experience

General Information

Full Name Jose Miguel Munoz Arias
Date of Birth 10 May 2001
Languages English, Spanish, French, Portuguese

Education

  • 2023 - Now
    PhD program in Physics, Statistics and Data Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
    • Expected graduation 2028
  • 2019 - 2023
    Bachelor of Science Physics
    EIA University, Envigado, Colombia
    • 4.8/5.0
    • Dean's List in all semesters
  • 2017 - 2018
    Astrophysics Diploma
    Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
  • 2021
    Graduate Courses on Deep Learning
    EIA University, Envigado, Colombia
  • 2021
    Data Science Diploma DS4A
    Correlation One

Research Experience

  • 2023 - present
    MIT Research
    MIT, Cambridge, USA
    • Supervisor prof. Garcia-Ruiz
    • Responsibilities
      • Improve Nuclear ab initio models and their uncertainty estimation.
      • Develop a nuclear physics-informed models for the prediction of nuclear properties.
      • Setup Lab for the study of the radioactive molecule cooling via laser spectroscopy.
  • 2022 - present
    CERN Intern Researcher
    CMS Collaboration (CERN), Vanderbilt University
    • Supervisor prof. Francesco Romo
    • Responsibilities
      • Study beyond Standard Model Dark Matter proposals and the feasibility of measuring it at the LHC.
      • Investigate improvements on Transformer and GNNs for improved sensibility and extrapolation.
      • Work on data processing pipelines for multivariate anomaly detection with Machine Learning at the BRIL-CMS Luminosity detector.
  • 2022
    Research Assistan
    EIA University, Envigado, Colombia
    • Supervisor prof. Amalia Betancur
    • Responsibilities
      • Studied quasi-elastic scattering processes at the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) near detector within a scalar Dark Matter doublet model.
      • Researched methods to estimate and improve sensitivity via Machine Learning methods for a phenomenological parameter space.
  • 2022
    Summer Student
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Supervisor prof. Andres Delannoy
    • Responsibilities
      • Developed an ML algorithm for detecting anomalies in experimental data of instant luminosity using bayesian computation and unsupervised learning.
      • Improved the computational postprocessing pipeline of the data recording for the CMS experiment
  • 2022
    Research Intern
    UBC, Vancouver, Canada
    • Supervisor prof. Christoph Ortner
    • Responsibilities
      • Researched applications of the Atomic Cluster Expansion method of material sciences to high energy physics.
      • Investigated the application of different parametric group-symmetry conserving computational models.
      • Explored Clebsch–Gordan coefficients representation to non-compact group representations.
  • 2022
    Research Intern
    Sivas Cumhuriyet University
    • Supervisors prof. Serkan Akkoyun, Murat Koksal
    • Responsibilities
      • Researched the feasibility of measuring anomalous magnetic and electric magnetic moments of $\tau$-lepton on future hadronic and electronic colliders.
      • Calculated numerically the expected cross-sections of different proton pdf for virtual-photon models.
      • Investigated Machine Learning methods for understanding unstable atomic decay energy.
  • 2020 - 2021
    Theoretical and Applied Physics Member
    EIA University, Envigado, Colombia
    • Supervisor prof. Amalia Betancur and Juan G. Suárez
    • Responsibilities
      • Explored bounding phenomenological constraints using matrix co-positivity via symbolic restrictions to the quartic couplings of the Standard Model Lagrangian.
      • Surveyed relic density restrictions to different Dark Matter masses via general and dedicated Montecarlo simulations.
      • Developed geometric DL algorithms for particle reconstruction at neutrino experiments.
      • Investigated the time-dependent Schrodinger solutions for different systems via Informed Neural Networks.
  • 2020
    Science Research Group Member
    Universidad de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
    • Supervisor David V. Forero
    • Responsibilities
      • Explored the feasibility of measuring violations to the CP symmetry at the DUNE far detector given neutrino oscillations and the Jarlskog for different lepton mixing.
      • Surveyed state-of-the-art precision proofs of Lepton non-universality.
  • 2019
    Econo-physics Research Assistant
    EIA University, Envigado, ColombiaA
    • Supervisor prof. Nathaly Rendón
    • Responsibilities
      • Solved Stochastic Equilibrium Partial Differential equations for modeling macro-econometric evolution.
      • Investigated regression models for GDP via Short-Long Term Neural Networks from network search factors.

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Summer Student Internship, CERN, Switzerland.
    • Mitacs Research Scholarship, British Columbia University, Canada.
    • Erasmus+ Scholarship, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Türkiye.
  • 2021
    • Dean's List, EIA University, Colombia.
    • Regional Research Winner, RedColsi (Colombian Research Network).
  • 2020
    • Dean's List, EIA University, Colombia.
  • 2019
    • Dean's List, EIA University, Colombia.
  • 2018
    • Gold Medal, National Astrophysics Olympiads.
    • Honourable Mention, International Olympiads on Astronomy and Astrophysics..
    • Silver Medal, Latin American Astronomy Olympiads.
    • First Place, National Physics Olympiads.
  • 2017
    • Silver Medal, National Astrophysics Olympiads.
    • Bronce Medal, Latin American Astronomy Olympiads.

Summer Schools

  • 2023
    Artificial Intelligence for Fundamental Interactions
    • AIFI 2-weeks summer school at Northeastern University.
  • 2022
    CERN Summer Student
    • A 9-weeks internship at CERN, Switzerland.

Academic Interests

  • Physics
    • High Energy Physics.
    • Nuclear Physics.
    • Quantum Physics.
  • Computer Science
    • Equivariant ML Models.
    • Symbolic Learning.
    • Symmetry discovery.
    • Language Model.
    • Uncertainty Estimation.
    • Manifold Learning.
    • Physics-Informed ML (e.g Neural PDE).

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Chess, Reading, Music, Jogging.