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Professor Hsu received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California San Diego (2003-2008) after earning a bachelor's degree (1995-1999) and a master's degree (2000) in Physics from National Taiwan University. He worked as a Chamberlain Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2008 to 2012 before joining the faculty at the University of Washington in Fall 2012. Professor Hsu began his career as an experimental particle physicist during his undergraduate years, where he installed and commissioned the Extreme Forward Calorimeter for the Belle experiment in KEK, Japan. He analyzed the earliest e+e- collision data to confirm the anomalously large production of B->eta'K under the supervision of Paoti Chang. His Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Frank Wuerthwein, provided a detailed study of diboson production during the Standard Model Higgs search at the CDF experiment at Fermilab. As a Chamberlain Fellow, Hsu led the development and commissioning of ATLAS Pixel DAQ software, particularly focusing on Read Drive Digital Signal Processing, and played a significant role in muon performance studies in proton-proton heavy ion collisions. He led the measurement and search for ZZ production and the ZZ resonance at high mass. Hsu served as the co-convener for diboson contacts in the LHC Electroweak Working Group in 2011. He continues his investigations into electroweak symmetry breaking by measuring properties of the 126 GeV particle discovered in July 2012 at the LHC while studying physics of the Standard Model and vector boson scattering at TeV energy scales using boosted jet substructure techniques.
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