Stanford · SLAC · ATLAS @ CERN

Kenny (Haoyi) Jia

Physics Ph.D. student building interpretable, ultra-fast machine learning to find new physics at the Energy Frontier.

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I'm a Ph.D. student in Physics at SLAC and Stanford, working on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN, advised by Dr. Julia Gonski and Dr. Dong Su.

My research is at the Energy Frontier: searching for Beyond Standard Model physics, future colliders, and the application of machine learning and edge computing in high energy physics. Recent work centers on interpretable anomaly detection for new physics searches and ultra-fast ML deployed directly on FPGAs in the ATLAS trigger and detector readout. I'm an affiliated trainee of the A3D3 Institute under the NSF HDR program.

Highlighted Research

GELATO ⤢ Click to enlarge GELATO

A Generic Event-Level Anomaly detection Trigger for ATLAS: here is the event display of a GELATO L1-fired event with the highest GELATO HLT AD score during May 2025, at 13.6 TeV.

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A contrastive-learning framework that surfaces extremely rare decay anomalies — like long-lived particles — that standard algorithms miss.

Selected Publications

ATLAS Collaboration author since March 2026.

Variational autoencoders for at-source data reduction and anomaly detection in high energy particle detectors

A. Yue, H. Jia, J. Gonski

Machine Learning: Science and Technology 6(3):035017 · 2025

Embedded FPGA developments in 130 nm and 28 nm CMOS for machine learning in particle detector readout

J. Gonski, A. Gupta, H. Jia, H. Kim, L. Rota, L. Ruckman, A. Dragone, R. Herbst

Journal of Instrumentation 19(08):P08023 · 2024

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ATLAS Collaboration

Papers I am an author on with the ATLAS Collaboration.

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