Dr. Bhawna Gomber

Assistant Professor

Office	University of Hyderabad,Gachibowli,Hyderabad,Telangana,500046
Personal web page	https://sites.google.com/view/drbhawnagomber/about?authuser=0
Qualification	Ph.D (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Phone: +91-040- 6679 4338, E-mail: bhawna.gomber@uohyd.ac.in

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D Experimental High Energy Physics Sep 2009 – 2014 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Title : Search of Large Extra Dimensions in the photon + MET final state in pp collisions with the CMS detector at the LHC.
Awards: Rahul Bose Memorial Award for the best thesis in high energy physics (2014-16)

M.Sc. Physics Jul 2007 – Jun 2009 University of Delhi, Delhi, India (Silver Medal)

M.Sc. (honors) Physics Jul 2004 – Jun 2007 University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor Dec 2017 – Present University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Visiting Assistant Professor May 2018 – Jun 2019 University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

Post Doctoral Research Associate Oct 2014 – Dec 2017 University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

Research Areas

Experimental High Energy Physics, CMS experiment, LHC, CERN
- BSM searches : SUSY, dark sector, dark matter,
- SM measurement : diboson measurement, Higgs cross section measurement
Trigger Electronics for CMS experiment at LHC, CERN, Algorithm development and implementation in FPGA

Research Projects [~4 crores]

Mega Science Project P7 [Principal Investigator]: 2022-2027 Rs. 123 lakhs
- “Indian participation in the CMS experiment at CERN: Maintenance, Operation and Upgradation”: Status: on-going
Chip to Start Up Grant [ Co-Chief Investigator] : 2023-20238 Rs. 85 lakhs
- “Development of Application Specific Integrated Circuit targeting Internet of Things in healthcare applications” Status: on-going
FIST program – 2024 [ Co-Investigator] Rs. 145 lakhs
- “ To strengthen the research facility in the department” Status: on-going
IOE RC2, UoH Grant, 2021 – 2024: [Principal Investigator] Rs. 39.96 lakhs
- “Beyond standard model search and firmware/ algorithm development for the trigger electronics for the CMS experiment at the LHC”: Status: completed
SERB startup grant, 2019 – 2021: [Principal Investigator]. Rs. 14.5 lakhs
- “Search for dark matter in mono-Photon, mono-Higgs and mono-Zprime final states using the proton-proton collision data collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider at center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV”: Status: completed
Mega Science Project, 2023-2028 [Principal Investigator] Rs. 30 lakhs
- “Updating and Operation of Regional WLCG Grid System (VS7/DAE/406 Scheme)”: Status: Approved by DAE (Sanction letter awaited from DST)

Awards / Achievements

2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: Recipient of one of the most prestigious honours in science, as a co-author of the CMS Collaboration’s Run-2 publications (2015–2024), recognised for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of fundamental particles and their interactions using data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. (https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1)
Member, Mega Science Vision Group (MSV 2035), committee formed by Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), of India Mega Science Project: High Energy Physics, 24^th December 2020
- Report submitted and public now https://www.psa.gov.in/
Panelist, “Vertical: Computational Space Sciences” under the “Horizontal: Computational Natural Sciences”, Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit, Oct – Nov 2022, of India
Invited Guest Lecturer, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, “Course: Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics”, 2020
Rahul Bose Memorial Award for the best thesis in high energy physics (2014-16)

Research Guidance

	Awarded	On-going	Total
Ph. D students	2	2 (1 submitted)	4
M. Tech student thesis	7	2	9
M.Sc. student project thesis	13	3	16
Internship from other institutes	5	–	5

3 students have completed Ph.d., and 18 (7) students have completed M.Sc. project (M.Tech project) under my supervision in last 7 years.

Student Opportunities

Awarded PhD students
- Piyush Kumar, 19PHPE04, appointed as Research Electronics Engineer, University of Notre Dame, USA (June 2024)
- Bisnupriya Sahu, 18PHPH18, appointed as a Post-doctoral fellow, Washington-CAU, USA (April 2025)
- Shriniketan Achara, 19PHPH15, thesis submitted, waiting for refree reports
Master Students
- Prayag Yadav, Internship for 6 months under HSF-India program of Princeton, USA, Sponsored by NSF, USA
- Abhinav Mohan (M.Tech student 2023-25), Fellowship for 1 year to be based at CERN to work on trigger firmware development.
  - Sponsored by University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and Fermilab, USA
- Other master students who did project with me got enrolled in Ph.Ds @ TIFR, NCNR-Polland, UOH
  - Also got data science jobs in industry – ST solutions, Symantec Corporation

Ph.D. Students Awards

Piyush Kumar, CMS Achievement Award, “For his contributions to the firmware algorithms and hardware tests of the Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger for Phase-2”, CMS Week, 24^th June 2024
Bisnupriya Sahu, Best Poster Award, “A search for dark matter in Higgs to tt + ET miss final state by using p-p collision data from CMS detector at 13 TeV”, International Conference on Frontier Areas of Science & Technology (ICFAST-2022), Sep 2022
Piyush Kumar, Best Post Award, “System Design and Prototyping for the CMS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger at the High-Luminosity LHC”, CMS Upgrade Days Workshop, 6^th – 8^th Feb 2023

Students Training Program

Organizer, Workshop on “Machine Learning for Physics”, CASEST, School of Physics, UoH, India, 26^th – 28^th Oct 2022 (Trained 50 students of UOH)
Organizer, “HSF-India HEP Software workshop in collaboration with Princeton University, USA”, at CASEST, SOP, 13^th -17^th Jan 2025 (Trained 60 students from all-over India)
Organizer, “One-day workshop on Quantum Computing Foundation and its applications”, in collaboration with SCIS, UOH, 28^th February 2025 (200 participants attended the workshop)
Coordinator, “Four-week Training program focused on VLSI Design and Fabrication Technology,” CASEST, UOH, 16^th June 2205 to 11^th July 2025 (60 students of CBIT college attended the training program)
Tutor, “CMS Data Analysis School 2025”, June 23^rd-27^th 2025, IIT Hyderabad (50 students are trained)
Coordinator, RISC V Workshop in collaboration with IESA, CASEST, School of Physics, UoH, India, 3^rd Nov – 4^th Nov 2023 (50 students were trained from different colleges of Hyderabad)

Designed New Course Curriculum

Course Name: High speed VLSI and system on chip: Design and implementation

Department: CASEST, School of physics (2019)

Course level: Post graduation (4 credit course)

International Collaboration

Member of the CMS Collaboration at CERN, LHC (2010- present), funded by DST, India. University of Hyderabad joined CMS as a SFI, full member of the CMS Collaboration at LHC, CERN on Dec 2024.
Collaboration with Princeton University under HSF-India program. It is a NSF, USA funded proposal to build international research software collaboration for India with USA and Europe. We organized a HSF-India workshop (jointly with Princeton University), January 13-18^th 2025 at University of Hyderabad

Leadership Positions in CMS Collaboration

CMS Collaboration: ~2100 Physicists + ~1100 students from 57 countries

CMS Management Hierarchy: L0 – 1 Spokesperson, L1 – 15 positions, L2 – 30 positions, L3 – 100 positions

Held a L2 position & served at different L3 positions in last 7 years at UoH playing crucial role in the CMS Management

- Convener, NPS: MC& Interpretation group [L3], Sep’ 25- Aug’27
- Coordinator, Trigger Study Group (TSG): Strategy, Trigger Evolution and Monitoring (STEAM) [L2], Sep’23 – Aug’25
- Convener, SUS: Third Generation Physics Analysis Group (Beyond standard model searches) [L3], Sep’23 – Aug’25
- Convener, CMS Level-1 Trigger JetMET Physics Object Group [L3], Oct’20 – Sep’22
- Member, CMS Thesis Award Committee, 2022 – 2024
- Convener, Upgrade Physics Studies Group, Future New Physics [L3], Sep’20 – Aug’22
- Convener, Exotica Physics: Missing Transverse Energy (MET) + X Physics Analysis Group [L3], Sep’18 – Sep’21
- Convener, Electron/Photon Trigger [L3], Jan – Dec’18
- Convener, Exotica (New Physics) Triggers

University Level Responsibilities: Coordinators/Committees

Student Union EC Member 2025, September 2025
Visveswaraya Coordinator for post-doc positions, 2025 onwards
SUKOON Fest 2025 supporting team member, March 2025
Member, IQAC Implementation Committee, Aug 2023 – 26
NAAC Single Point of Contact for CASEST, 2024 – present
Member, Advisory cum Purchase Committee, CNF, Aug 2023 -25
Member, Coordinate with Clarivate Analytics under IOE, Dec 2022 – present
SUKOON Fest 2024 supporting team member, April 2024
Warden, Ladies Hostels – V and VI, 2019 – 2022

CASEST, School of Physics Organization: School/Workshops/Conferences

Parallel Session Manager, Dark sector at colliders, Lepton Photon 2025, UW-Madison, USA
Coordinator, Beyond Standard Model Physics Group, DAE-HEP 2024, BHU Varanasi, 19^th December to 23^rd December 2024
Organizer, Seminar by Dr. David Lange and Dr. Peter Elmer, Princeton University, USA on “Building International Research Software Collaboration in Physics”, School of Physics, UoH, 2^nd Feb 2024
Coordinator, Beyond Standard Model Physics Group, WHEPP-2024, IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2^nd Jan – 11^th Jan 2024
Member, National Organizing Committee, Workshop in “Statistical Methods and Machine Learning”, ICTS Bangalore, India, 28^th Aug – 8^th Sep 2023
Coordinator, “Refresher course in Physics 2022”, HRDC, UoH, India, 5^th – 17^th Dec 2022
Convener and Coordinator, Beyond Standard Model Physics, “XXV DAE HEP Symposium 2022”, IISER Mohali, India, 12^th – 16^th Dec 2022
Panel Discussion member, “XXV DAE-HEP Symposium”, IISER, Mohali, 12^th – 16^th Dec 2022
Organizer, Workshop on “Machine Learning for Physics”, CASEST, School of Physics, UoH, India, 26^th – 28^th Oct 2022
Member, Local Organizing Committee, “12^th India – Japan Science & Technology conference (ICFAST-2022)”, UoH, 9^th – 10^th Sep 2022
Organiser, Seminar by Prof. Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, on “Electronics for triggering particle physics discoveries”, School of Physics, UoH, India, Aug 2020
Member, Local Organising Committee, “National workshop on Network Science (NetSci-2020)”, UoH, India, 13^th – 15^th Mar 2020

Contributions to CASEST/School of Physics: Outreach Activities

Coordinated outreach activity for school students. Students of XII class, DPS Khajaguda visited CASEST, School of Physics experimental labs, 29^th August 2024
Public Lecture, “What the world is made of”, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Rangareddy (Girls), Vigyan Jyothi, WISE-KIRAN program, DST-India, 22^nd Nov 2022
Public Q&A on Instagram, “Ask me anything – Dark Matter”, social media for public awareness on fundamental science, 31^st Oct 2022.
Seminar, “Discovery of Higgs boson using the CMS experiment at the LHC”, ETHER, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, 24^th Jan 2018

Invited International Keynote/Conference Presentations

Invited talk, “Mono-Higgs: state of the art and plans for future combinations”, CMS Physics Days: BSM Combination, 17^th -18^th Feb 2025
Invited talk, “Dark matter searches at CMS, LHC”, DAE-HEP 2024, BHU Varanasi, 19^th December to 23^rd December 2024
Invited talk, “Dark matter searches at CMS, LHC”, ICHEPAP 23, SINP Kolkata, 11^th December to 15th December 2023
Invited talk, “Dark matter searches at CMS, LHC”, International Conference on Neutrinos and Dark Matter (NuDM-2022), Egypt, 25^th – 28^th Sep 2022
Invited talk, “Recent results from CMS”, Miami 2021 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 15^th – 17^th Dec 2021
Invited talk, “Physics beyond Standard Model at the HL-LHC with CMS”, European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2021), 26^th – 30^th Jul 2021
Talk, “Beam induced backgrounds at the HL-LHC: CMS perspective”, 9^th Workshop of the Long Lived Particle Community, Online (Covid-19), 25^th – 28^th May 2021
Plenary talk, “Search for long-lived particle and unconventional signatures”, 8^th Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference, Online (Covid-19), 25^th – 30^th May 2020
Invited talk, “Search for dark matter recoiling from the standard model Higgs boson”, Workshop on Frontiers in High Energy Physics (FHEP-2019), University of Hyderabad, India
Invited talk, “SUSY Searches”, XXIV DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2020, NISER, Bhubaneswar, 14^th – 18^th Dec 2020
Invited talk, “Machine Learning in High Energy Physics”, Machine Learning for Physics, IIIT Hyderabad, 29^th Nov – 1^st Dec 2019
Invited talk, “Dark Matter Searches at CMS”, Pressing for Progress 2019: An IPA National Conference towards Gender Equity in Physics, University of Hyderabad, 19^th – 21^st Sep 2019
Invited talk, “Dark matter searches using the CMS detector at the LHC”, FIPPC 2019, University of Hyderabad, 2019

Publications in Refereed Journals

Last 7 years (2018 – 2025): Number of Publications – 654

Inspire: http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Bhawna.Gomber.1
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZAYVoDoAAAAJ
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=47960970300

Students Talk

Student (Poster Presentation), The CMS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger for the HL-LHC, CALOR 2022 – 19th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics, University of Sussex, UK, International, 16/05/2022-20/05/2022
Student (Poster Presentation), The Particle Flow Algorithm in the Phase II Upgrade of the CMS Level-1 Trigger, The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics 2021, Online, International, 26/07/2021-30/07/2021
Student (Talk), System Design and Prototyping for the CMS Level-1 Trigger at the High-Luminosity LHC, 23rd Virtual IEEE Real Time Conference, Online, International, 01/08/2022-05/08/2022
Student (Poster Presentation), System Design and Prototyping for the CMS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger at the High-Luminosity LHC, CMS Upgrade days at CERN, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, International, 06/02/2023-08/02/2023
Student (Talk), “Calorimeter Trigger Slice Test Results and Plans”, Level-1 Trigger Workshop @ Athens, Athens, Greece, International, 11/09/2023-15/09/2023
Student (Talk), “Level-1 Jet/MET plans for Run3”, Level-1 Trigger Workshop @ Athens, Athens, Greece, International, 11/09/2023-15/09/2023
Student (Invited Talk), “Search for dark matter results in CMS”, TauP conference, Vienna, International, 27/08/2023-07/09/2023
Student (Invited Talk), “Dark matterin CMS and ATLAS”, Corfu23, Greece, International, 28/08/2023-06/09/2023
Student (Poster Presentation): A search for dark matter in Higgs to τ τ + ET miss final state by using p-p collision data CMS detector at √S = 13 TeV, School of Physics, UoH, International Conference on Frontier Areas of Science and Technology (ICFAST-2022), University of Hyderabad, International, 09/09/2022-10/09/2022
Student (Poster Presentation): “A search for top squark pair production by using tau polarization in a final state with two leptons using the CMS detector at the High-Luminosity LHC”, XXV DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2022, IISER Mohali, National, 12/12/2022-16/12/2022
Student (Poster Presentation), “A search for dark matter in Higgs to tau-tau + MET final state by using p-p collision data of CMS detector at √S = 13 TeV”, Frontiers in Physics, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, National, 03/03/2023-04/03/2023
Student (Poster Presentation), “Search for Dark matter using monophoton final state in p-p collisions using CMS detector at the LHC”, ICFAST 2022, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, International, 09/09/2022-10/09/2022
Student (Oral Presentation), “Search for Dark matter using monophoton final state in p-p collisions using CMS detector at the LHC”, XXV DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics symposium, IISER Mohali, National,12/12/2022-16/12/2022
Student (Poster Presentation), “The Calorimeter L1 Trigger for the HL-LHC”, ICFAST-2022, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, International, 09/09/2022-10/09/2022
Student (Talk), “Firmware Development for the Phase-2 Upgrade of the Calorimeter L1 Trigger for the CMS Detector”, XXV DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2022, IISER Mohali, Mohali, India, National, 12/12/2022-16/12/2022
Student (Poster Presentation), System Design and Prototyping for the CMS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger at the High-Luminosity LHC, CMS Upgrade days at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, International, 06/02/2023-08/02/2023.

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