Dr. David Sperka

Biography

David Sperka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Boston University, where he conducts research focused on the search for dark sector particles and the development of high-speed reconstruction algorithms to facilitate these searches. His past research includes significant contributions to the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), notably aiding in the discovery of the Higgs boson and leading efforts to produce combined measurements using various Higgs boson production and decay channels. David has co-coordinated multiple groups within the CMS collaboration, including the Higgs Combination Properties group and the Exotic Higgs physics group, focusing on new physics searches beyond the Standard Model. He is deeply involved in the experimental infrastructure and algorithm development related to these searches, particularly in enhancing CMS data acquisition systems through GPU-accelerated event reconstruction. David's work addresses the strong CP problem and aims to identify weakly coupled particles to offer solutions to fundamental challenges in particle physics. He also serves as a coordinator for the software computing efforts related to the High Luminosity LHC, striving to streamline processes for analyzing extensive datasets generated by the experiment.

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