I'm a PhD candidate working on the CMS experiment. With over 5 years of experience in high-energy particle physics, I've specialized in analyzing big, complex datasets while developing and implementing hardware and software to improve the experiment.
Studying lepton flavor anomalies and developing Level-1 Trigger upgrades at the CMS detector.
Validated FPGA signal performance circuits using VHDL for upgrades to ATLAS muon spectrometer. Performed thermal testing for detector cooling enclosures. Contributed to ATLAS analysis of associate top quark production of the Higgs Boson. Improved isolation scale factors to optimize photon identification in EM calorimeter.
Analyzed X-Ray spectra of relativistic electron plasmas to study laser wakefield accelerators. Used MATLAB to build models for calculating photon temperatures. Received student travel grant to present at 2018 APS DPP conference in Portland, Oregon.
Studied elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
N. Zipper, Real-Time Anomaly Detection in the CMS Experiment, Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2024, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, October 2024.
N. Zipper, Precision Flavor Measurements and Real-Time Anomaly Detection at the CMS Detector, APS 4 Corners Section Meeting 2024, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, October 2024.
N. Zipper, Testing a Neural Network for Anomaly Detection in the CMS Global Trigger Test Crate during Run 3, Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics 2023, Geremeas, Sardinia, Italy, October 2023.
N. Zipper, Search for Electroweak SUSY in Hadronic Final States with the CMS Detector, The XXIX International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, June 2022.
Outside from work, I love snowboarding, cooking, hiking, seeing live music, watching movies, and travelling. Nothing groundbreaking here.
