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Arghya Ranjan Das

PhD candidate, Experimental High-Energy Physics

Purdue University · CMS Collaboration (CERN) · Fermilab

Education

  1. Aug 2023–present

    Ph.D. in Physics

    Purdue University

  2. Aug 2022–Jul 2023

    M.S., Physics

    Indian Institute of Science (IISc) — with Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, black-hole astrophysics

  3. Aug 2018–Jul 2022

    B.S. (Research), Physics

    Indian Institute of Science (IISc) — with Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, modified general relativity

Research Interests

Publications

  1. 2026

    On-Detector Machine Learning for Beam-Induced Background Rejection at a 10 TeV Muon Collider

    SmartPixels Collaboration — Muon Collider

    arXiv preprint

    arXiv:2608.21327

  2. 2026

    On-chip probabilistic inference for charged-particle tracking at the sensor edge

    SmartPixels Collaboration

    arXiv preprint

    arXiv:2602.15946

  3. 2026

    PQuantML: A Tool for End-to-End Hardware-aware Model Compression

    NGT Collaboration

    arXiv preprint

    arXiv:2603.26595

  4. 2026

    Robustness of the smartpixels classifier for different simulated sensor geometries and non-ideal detector conditions

    SmartPixels Collaboration

    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1092

    DOI

  5. 2025

    Performance measurements of the electromagnetic calorimeter and readout electronics system for the DarkQuest experiment

    DarkQuest Collaboration

    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1080

    DOIarXiv:2502.20590

  6. 2025

    Sensor Co-design for smartpixels

    SmartPixels Collaboration

    arXiv preprint

    arXiv:2510.06588

  7. 2025

    Characterization of a 28 nm smartpixels ASIC With On-Chip ML for Particle Tracking Detectors

    SmartPixels Collaboration

    arXiv preprint

    arXiv:2510.07485

  8. 2023

    QPOs in Compact Sources as a Nonlinear Hydrodynamical Resonance: Determining Spin of Compact Objects

    A. R. Das, B. Mukhopadhyay

    Astrophys. J. 955

    DOIarXiv:2308.09759

  9. 2022

    Asymptotically flat vacuum solution for a rotating black hole in a modified gravity theory

    A. R. Das, B. Mukhopadhyay

    Eur. Phys. J. C 82

    DOIarXiv:2203.07690

Teaching · Graduate Teaching Assistant

  1. Fall 2025

    PHYS 570AIPhysics and AI

    Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

  2. Spring 2024 · 2025

    ASTR 263Descriptive Astronomy: The Solar System

    Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

  3. Fall 2024

    ASTR 264Descriptive Astronomy: Stars and Galaxies

    Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

  4. Fall 2023

    PHYS 233Physics for Life Sciences

    Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

Mentorship

  1. Spring 2024 – Spring 2025

    Ana Sofia Calle

    Undergraduate · EAFIT University

  2. Fall 2025

    Conan Haller

    Undergraduate · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  3. Summer – Fall 2025

    Brian Rodgers

    Undergraduate · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Awards & Fellowships

  1. 2025

    LPC Guests & Visitors (G&V) Program Award

    Awarded by the LPC Guests and Visitors Program, funded by the U.S. CMS Operations program.

  2. 2024

    Dr. Rolf Scharenberg Summer Graduate Fellowship

    Funded by Wendell and Nancy Lutz.

  3. 2018–23

    KVPY Fellowship

    The highest undergraduate-level fellowship awarded by the Government of India.

Workshops & Schools

  1. 2024

    Fast Machine Learning for Science

    Purdue University (Oct 15–18, 2024)

  2. 2022

    Physics at the Early Universe

    ICTS

  3. 2019

    Undergraduate Research Showcase

    IISc

  4. 2017, 2018

    Vijyoshi National Science Camp

    KVPY × INSPIRE

  5. 2016

    Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Program

Skills

  1. Advanced Physics Courses

    Particle Physics II · General Relativity · Fundamentals of Astrophysics · QFT I · Electromagnetic Theory · Quantum Mechanics I & II · Statistical Mechanics · Nuclear & Particle Physics · Mathematical Methods of Physics · Classical Mechanics

  2. Mathematics

    Differential/Integral Calculus · Linear Algebra · Tensor Algebra · Statistics

  3. Programming

    C/C++ · Python · Mathematica · MATLAB

  4. ML & Technical

    TensorFlow · Keras · PyTorch · NumPy · Pandas · JAX · ROOT

  5. Languages

    English (fluent) · Bengali (native) · Hindi

  6. Extracurricular

    Water life-saving · Hiking

Service & Outreach

  1. 2024

    ML Hackathon Challenge (poster)

    NSF HDR ML Challenge

  2. 2022

    Radio Astronomy Workshop

    PRAVEGA 2022, IISc (hosted by Naxxatra)

  3. 2019

    Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

    Vigyan Samagam (DAE / DST / NCSM)

References

Available on request.

Arghya Ranjan Das

PhD candidate, Experimental High-Energy Physics

Purdue University · CMS Collaboration (CERN) · Fermilab

Education

Ph.D. in Physics

Purdue University

Advisor: Miaoyuan Liu · CGPA 3.98/4.0

Aug 2023–present

M.S., Physics

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

with Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, black-hole astrophysics

Physics CGPA 9.5/10 (Overall 9.0/10)

Aug 2022–Jul 2023

B.S. (Research), Physics

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

with Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, modified general relativity

Physics CGPA 9.4/10 (Overall 8.9/10)

Aug 2018–Jul 2022

Research Interests

  • Particle physics — CMS Collaboration, Run-3 collision data
  • Astrophysics & gravitation — black holes, QPOs, modified gravity
  • ML-on-silicon — smart pixels, pruning, quantization
  • Real-time triggers — microsecond decision systems, 40 MHz
  • Foundations — the measurement problem, emergence of spacetime

Publications

  1. SmartPixels Collaboration — Muon Collider. On-Detector Machine Learning for Beam-Induced Background Rejection at a 10 TeV Muon Collider. arXiv preprint (2026).

    arXiv:2608.21327

  2. SmartPixels Collaboration. On-chip probabilistic inference for charged-particle tracking at the sensor edge. arXiv preprint (2026).

    arXiv:2602.15946

  3. NGT Collaboration. PQuantML: A Tool for End-to-End Hardware-aware Model Compression. arXiv preprint (2026).

    arXiv:2603.26595

  4. SmartPixels Collaboration. Robustness of the smartpixels classifier for different simulated sensor geometries and non-ideal detector conditions. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1092 (2026).

    doi:10.1016/j.nima.2026.171897

  5. DarkQuest Collaboration. Performance measurements of the electromagnetic calorimeter and readout electronics system for the DarkQuest experiment. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1080 (2025).

    doi:10.1016/j.nima.2025.170792arXiv:2502.20590

  6. SmartPixels Collaboration. Sensor Co-design for smartpixels. arXiv preprint (2025).

    arXiv:2510.06588

  7. SmartPixels Collaboration. Characterization of a 28 nm smartpixels ASIC With On-Chip ML for Particle Tracking Detectors. arXiv preprint (2025).

    arXiv:2510.07485

  8. A. R. Das, B. Mukhopadhyay. QPOs in Compact Sources as a Nonlinear Hydrodynamical Resonance: Determining Spin of Compact Objects. Astrophys. J. 955 (2023).

    doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acf1fbarXiv:2308.09759

  9. A. R. Das, B. Mukhopadhyay. Asymptotically flat vacuum solution for a rotating black hole in a modified gravity theory. Eur. Phys. J. C 82 (2022).

    doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10899-5arXiv:2203.07690

Teaching & Mentorship

PHYS 570AI – Physics and AI

Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

Fall 2025

ASTR 263 – Descriptive Astronomy: The Solar System

Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

Spring 2024 · 2025

ASTR 264 – Descriptive Astronomy: Stars and Galaxies

Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

Fall 2024

PHYS 233 – Physics for Life Sciences

Graduate Teaching Assistant · Purdue University

Fall 2023

Mentorship

Ana Sofia Calle

Undergraduate · EAFIT University

Spring 2024 – Spring 2025

Conan Haller

Undergraduate · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Fall 2025

Brian Rodgers

Undergraduate · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Summer – Fall 2025

References

Available on request.