Eluned Smith

Eluned Smith is an Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT, affiliated with the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science. She specializes in particle physics experiments using rare beauty quark decays to search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Her research leverages the LHCb detector at CERN to analyze electroweak penguin decays, focusing on resolving the Flavour-Anomalies through high-dimensional data fitting techniques.

Education: B.Sc. and Ph.D. from Imperial College London (graduated 2017). Postdoctoral positions included RWTH Aachen and a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellowship at the University of Zürich. Since 2021, she leads the Rare Decays physics program within the LHCb collaboration.

• Key Research Focus: BSM physics via rare decays, QCD effects, and machine learning for data reduction in next-gen LHCb upgrades
• Awards: Ambizione Fellowship (2021), Emmy Noether Grant (declined 2022)

Her group is developing real-time machine learning algorithms to manage data throughput for the upcoming LHCb detector upgrade (~2030s). Current work emphasizes distinguishing BSM signals from QCD backgrounds in precision measurements.