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Austin Baty, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on understanding the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in high-energy heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) through the CMS Collaboration. He explores how QGP phenomena emerge from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and collaborates on detector development for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) via the ePIC Collaboration.
Education: B.S. in Physics and Math from Texas A&M University (2013), Ph.D. in Physics from MIT (2019), followed by a Rice Academy Fellowship at Rice University (2019–2023) before joining UIC in 2023.
Research interests include QCD collective evolution, quantum entanglement in jets, and precision measurements in heavy-ion and electron-positron collisions. Technical contributions include leadership in CMS particle tracking and data acquisition systems.
Scientific recognition includes the School of Science Fellowship (MIT) and Rice Academy Fellowship. His work aims to leverage LHC Run 3 (2022–2025) and Run 4 (2029–2032) datasets to advance QCD understanding and EIC detector capabilities.
