Souvik Das

Souvik Das is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech). A high-energy physicist, he has been a member of the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider since 2006, contributing to detector instrumentation and analyses that culminated in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson.

Education & Experience:

• PhD Advisor: Anders Ryd (mentioned in INSPIRE profile)
• Postdoc: University of Florida (2011–2017)
• Staff Scientist: Purdue University (2017–2023)
• Current: Assistant Professor, Florida Tech (2023–present)

Research Interests: Dr. Das focuses on experimental high-energy particle physics, particularly on the properties of the Higgs boson, electroweak symmetry breaking, and searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. He has pioneered instrumentation efforts for the next-generation CMS detector upgrade and maintains active interests in quantum computing architectures and neuromorphic artificial intelligence as applied to particle-physics data analysis.

Research Highlights: His work spans precision measurements of the Higgs boson width, searches for exotic Higgs decays into light pseudoscalars, studies of heavy-flavor and multi-strange hadrons in heavy-ion collisions, and development of machine-learning techniques for background estimation. His publications reflect contributions to both the CMS and STAR collaborations, covering topics from dielectron production to hypertriton formation.

Scientific Awards: No specific awards were mentioned in the provided text blocks.

Teaching & Mentoring: While no explicit list of students was provided, Dr. Das expresses a strong passion for teaching physics at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Laboratories & Teams: He leads instrumentation R&D within the CMS Collaboration and is involved in the Florida Tech High-Energy Physics group located in F.W. Olin Physical Sciences 342.