Department
School
High Energy Physics
Biography
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Shin-Shan Yu received her B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She subsequently worked as a research associate at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory before joining the National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan as an assistant professor in 2009. She was promoted to associate professor in 2013 and full professor in 2018. In 2024, Dr. Yu joined the Catholic University of America as a research associate professor. Dr. Yu has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Wu Ta-You Memorial Award in 2013, the Excellent Young Scholars Award in 2021 from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology (now the National Science and Technology Council), and the Taiwan Outstanding Junior Female Scientist Award in 2017 from the Chien-Shiung Wu Foundation. Her outstanding contributions to data quality monitoring and data certification in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment earned her the CMS Award in 2024. Additionally, Dr. Yu received the Outstanding Research Awards from 2015 to 2017 and the Chia-Lun Luo Award for Outstanding Junior Research Investigators in 2018 at NCU. She was also appointed as a Distinguished Professor at NCU from 2019 to 2021.
Research Interests
As a UPenn Ph.D. student and a Fermilab research associate, Dr. Shin-Shan Yu was an active member of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) Collaboration. She constructed, commissioned, and maintained the operation of CDF central outer tracker (COT) and its frontend electronics. She played a pivotal role in the study of the lightest beauty baryon, Lambda_b, and in searches for new physics involving photons. Since 2009, She has been a dedicated member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration. Her research focuses on advancing the understanding of photon and jet production in colliders, searching for dark matter particles, and investigating new physics through events involving photons or Higgs bosons. From 2022 to 2024, she was significantly involved in the CMS experiment’s operations and served as a Level-2 convener for the Physics Performance and Dataset (PPD) Data Quality Monitoring and Data Certification (DQM-DC) group. She is also actively involved in the research and development programs for calorimeters designed for future circular colliders. Beyond collider physics, Dr. Yu established the Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with a Haloscope (TASEH) in collaboration with several professors in Taiwan, aiming to detect the axion, a leading dark matter candidate.Selected Publications
[1] D. Abadjiev et al. [CMS ECAL], “Autoencoder-based Anomaly Detection System for Online Data Quality Monitoring of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter,” Comput Softw Big Sci 8, 11 (2024).[2] CMS Collaboration, “Search for a massive scalar resonance decaying to a light scalar and
a Higgs boson in the four b quarks final state with boosted topology,” Phys. Lett. B 842 , 137392 (2023).
[3] TASEH Collaboration, “First Results from the Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with a Haloscope at 19.6 μeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111802 (2022).
[4] TASEH Collaboration, “Taiwan axion search experiment with haloscope: Designs and operations,” Review of Scientific Instruments 93, 084501 (2022).
[5] TASEH Collaboration, “Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with Haloscope: CD102 Analysis Details,” Phys. Rev. D 106, 052002 (2022).
[6] S. V. Chekanov, A. V. Kotwal, C. H. Yeh and S. S. Yu, “Physics potential of timing layers
in future collider detectors,” JINST 15, P09021 (2020).
[7] CMS Collaboration, “Search for dark matter particles produced in association with a
Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV,” JHEP 03, 025 (2020).
[8] D. Abercrombie et al., “Dark Matter benchmark models for early LHC Run-2 Searches:
Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum,” Phys. Dark Univ. 27, 100371 (2020).
[9] LHC Dark Matter Working Group, “LHC Dark Matter Working Group: Next-generation
spin-0 dark matter models,” Phys. Dark Univ. 27, 100351 (2020).
[10] C.-H. Yeh, S. V. Chekanov, A. V. Kotwal, J. Proudfoot, S. Sen, N. V. Tran and S.-S. Yu, “Studies of granularity of a hadronic calorimeter for tens-of-TeV jets at a 100 TeV pp collider,” JINST 14, P05008 (2019).
[11] CMS Collaboration, “Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson
decaying to a pair of bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV,” Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 280 (2019).
[12] CMS Collaboration, “Search for production of Higgs boson pairs in the four b quark final
state using large-area jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV,” JHEP 01, 040 (2019).
[13] CMS Collaboration, “Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in
the four b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 781, 244 (2018).
[14] CMS Collaboration, “Search for associated production of dark matter with a Higgs boson
decaying to b b-bar or gamma-gamma at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV,” JHEP 10, 180 (2017).