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Office: 2055 New Physics Building
Tel: (352) 392-5709
Web: www.phys.ufl.edu/~matchev
E-mail: matchev@ufl.edu

Awards and Distinctions

	2021: NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute certificate
	2018-21: UF Term Professor
	2018-21: UF Research Foundation Professor
	2017: UF Postdoc Mentoring Award
	2015: Fellow of the American Physical Society
	2012: UF Doctoral Mentoring Award
	2004: Outstanding Junior Investigator, Department of Energy

Recent Teaching

Fall 2022: PHY 7097 Machine Learning

Spring 2022: PHY 4905 Machine Learning

Fall 2021: PHY 7097 Machine Learning

Spring 2021: PHY 4905 Machine Learning

Fall 2020: PHY 7097 Quantum Computing for Physicists

Fall 2020: PHY 7097 Machine Learning

Fall 2019: PHY 7097 QFT 1.5

Fall 2019: PHY 4222 Mechanics II

Spring 2019: PHY 4222 Mechanics II

Fall 2018: PHY 3221 Mechanics I

Spring 2018: PHY 4222 Mechanics II

Fall 2017: PHY 3221 Mechanics I

Spring 2016: PHZ 7359: Standard Model II

Fall 2015: PHZ 6358: Standard Model I

Spring 2015: PHY 7669 Quantum Field Theory II

Fall 2014: PHY 6648 Quantum Field Theory I

Spring 2014: PHZ 7359: Standard Model II

Fall 2013: PHZ 6358: Standard Model I

Spring 2013: PHY 7669 Quantum Field Theory II

Fall 2012: PHY 6648 Quantum Field Theory I

Spring 2012: PHZ 7359: Standard Model II

Fall 2011: PHZ 6358: Standard Model I

Summer 2011: TASI summer school, University of Colorado, Boulder CO

Spring 2011: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Fall 2010: PHY 3221 Mechanics I

Spring 2010: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Fall 2009: PHY 3221 Mechanics I

Summer 2009: "Theorist of the Week" lectures at the LPC, Fermilab.

Summer 2009: Lectures on supersymmetry, ICTP Summer School, Trieste, Italy

Spring 2009: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Fall 2008: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Spring 2008: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Fall 2007: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Summer 2007: Cosmology/DM, PiTP summer school, IAS, Princeton

Spring 2007: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Fall 2006: MET 1010 Introduction to Weather

Spring 2006: PHY 2054 Physics 2 w/o Calculus

Fall 2005: PHY 6648 Quantum Field Theory I

Summer 2005: Practicum on Simulations, PiTP summer school, IAS, Princeton

Spring 2005: PHY 7669 Quantum Field Theory II

Fall 2004: PHY 6648 Quantum Field Theory I

Summer 2004: SSI summer school, SLAC

Spring 2004: P646 High Energy Particle Physics Physics Department, Cornell University; Visiting the Cornell Institute of High Energy Phenomenology

Fall 2003: Visiting LEPP, Cornell University

Spring 2003: PHY 4222 - Mechanics II

Fall 2002: Semester off teaching

Summer 2002: TASI summer school, Boulder.

Spring 2002: PHY 2048 - Physics with Calculus 1 (discussion leader)

Current Research and Teaching

	Special Topics In High Energy Theory Spring 2023 course
	Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Fall 2022 course Spring 2022 course Fall 2021 course Spring 2021 course Fall 2020 course
	Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Fall 2020 course quantum algorithm for hypothesis testing QUBO problems
	Exoplanets: transit spectroscopy, exobiology characterization of exoplanet atmospheres exploratory data analysis of exoplanet transit spectra symbolic regression for modelling radiative transfer
	Machine learning applications in physics: symbolic regression for modelling particle kinematics deep-learned kinematic variables deep-learned categorization in high-energy physics
	Fundamental AI uncertainty quantification of GANs deep-learned mixture model estimation InferoStatic Networks; multiparameter inference deep learning symmetries in the data deep learning symmetries in the latent space machine learning Lie groups and algebras
	Spatial statistics and computational geometry edge detection with Voronoi tessellations wombling with Delaunay triangulations
	Monte Carlo simulations and sampling reweighting optimal importance sampling
	Dark matter detection with superfluid He: theory and phenomenology identification at colliders
	Phase space kinematics singularity variables focus point method for mass measurements
	Review papers on collider phenomenology kinematic variables and feature engineering supersymmetry at the LHC universal extra dimensions at the LHC

Research in the news

	UF Explore magazine (December 2022) Signs of Life
	UF Physics News (December 2022) Exoplanets Research Team Wins Machine Learning Data Challenge
	UF News (August 2022) Florida Scientists Delve into the Cosmos
	AAS Nova Research Highlights (July 2022): A Simpler Way to Analyze Spectra
	medium.com (April 2022) 5 Papers to Read on Dimensionality Reduction
	PRL Highlights (April 2016) Explaining a 750 GeV Bump
	Physics World (February 2011) Will the LHC find supersymmetry
	"Viewpoint" (November 2010) Meet a superpartner at the LHC
	"New Scientist" (September 2010) LHC could hit the jackpot this year
	Science & Vie (Fall 2005) Boson de Higgs: Et s'il n'existait pas
	SpaceDaily (May 2003) Florida physicist says ...
	"New Scientist" (November 2002) Antarctic neutrino trap ...
	Physical Review Focus (November 2002) Detecting Dark Dimensions