Message to recruiter
I will graduate from KTH with a M.Sc. Eng. in August / September 2022. I’m mainly interested in the PhD project proposed by Verena Kain and Carlo Petrone concerning modeling of hysteresis using machine learning.
If known, please indicate the name of the university/institute at which you will be enrolled as PhD student well as the name of the professor.
The university the PhD will be carried out at is not known at this time, but will be cleared up in the coming months.
Give a brief outline with the type of thesis work you would like to do at CERN?
I’m mainly interested in pursuing a PhD within the fields of machine learning, computer science, physics, and everything in between. I like working in interdiscplinary research and development where I can apply knowledge from different fields to my work, which I find more interesting. The scientific field of the PhD like Accelerator Physics or Computer Science is less of importance to me than the content of the project work and the things I can learn.
I am a more software oriented engineer, but would gladly work with hardware hands-on, and I’m happy to learn completely new things.
Relevant to your respective field of studies, what are your reasons for applying to this position?
I’m applying to the PhD programme mainly in pursuit of the project proposed by Verena and Carlo; modeling magnetic hysteresis using machine learning.
My background in engineering physics and machine learning B.Sc. and M.Sc. make me an suitable candidate for working in this area. Performing measurements from lab hardware, performing signal processing, to modeling time series using machine learning are things I have previous theoretical (and in some cases practical) experience with, and would be happy to apply in practice. Additionally my time from previously working at CERN with automating longitudinal phase space tomography for the PSB has given me experience in working with control room software tools that I would like to expand upon. I also am personally intrigued by the proposed project, as it requires the use of a wide range of skills from different fields that would be very fun to do (as opposed to let’s say a pure data science project).
I like learning new things, and I feel this PhD project is a greate opportunity for me to do that, as well as applying the gained knowledge for practical purposes in improving the efficiency of the CERN accelerator complex.