Claudio Campagnari is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he has been a faculty member since 1994, when he joined as an Assistant Professor. He served as Chair of the Physics Department from 2018 to 2023 and maintains an active research program in experimental high energy physics. Campagnari is a prominent researcher who has made significant contributions to particle physics through major experiments including CDF, BaBar, and CMS. His educational background includes: BS in Physics (First Class Honours) from the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) in 1982 PhD in Physics from Yale University in 1988, with thesis research on lepton flavor violation decays of K-mesons at Brookhaven National Laboratory Campagnari's research focuses on experimental high energy physics, particularly particle properties and fundamental interactions. His work centers around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where he is a key member of the CMS collaboration. He played significant roles in the discovery of the top quark in 1994-95 and the Higgs boson in 2012. His current research emphasizes Higgs boson studies, searches for exotic new physics signatures including long-lived particles, and the development of silicon trackers for particle detection. Notably, he has expanded into interdisciplinary research, applying machine learning techniques from physics to clinical medical problems, particularly in heart failure prediction and management. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a dual research trajectory: continued leadership in particle physics with numerous publications on Higgs boson properties and new physics searches, coupled with significant work applying machine learning to medical problems. This interdisciplinary approach demonstrates how analytical techniques from high-energy physics can be successfully transferred to address challenges in healthcare. His notable scientific achievements include: Sloan Fellowship Outstanding Junior Investigator award from the Department of Energy Campagnari actively mentors students and postdocs, with multiple graduate students and a postdoc currently in his research group. His group has secured substantial research funding for work on the CMS experiment, the MilliQan experiment for detecting particles with very small electric charge, and medical applications of machine learning. At UCSB, he has taught physics at all levels, from introductory courses for life science majors to advanced graduate courses in particle physics. His research team is involved in multiple major projects including the CMS experiment at CERN, where they contribute to the muon detector system and are developing upgrades for the high luminosity LHC era. They also participate in the MilliQan experiment searching for particles related to dark matter scenarios, and collaborate with medical researchers on applying machine learning tools to clinical cardiology problems.
