Jesse Thaler

Jesse Thaler is a Professor in the MIT Physics Department and the Center for Theoretical Physics. He joined MIT in 2010 after a Miller Institute fellowship at UC Berkeley (2006-2009). His research focuses on collider phenomenology, quantum computing applications in particle physics, and machine learning methods for high-energy data analysis. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2006) and a Sc.B. from Brown University (2002).

Key honors include the DOE Early Career Award (2011), Presidential Early Career Award (2012), Sloan Fellowship (2013), and MIT's Edgerton Award (2016). His work bridges theoretical physics with cutting-edge computational techniques, emphasizing jet substructure analysis, energy correlator studies, and symmetry discovery via AI.

Thaler leads the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics' efforts in collider physics and co-founded the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI). His research group collaborates on LHC Olympics challenges and explores quantum algorithms for jet clustering. Recent work includes developing Lorentz-equivariant neural networks and anomaly detection frameworks for CMS open data.