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CURRICULUM VITAE

      

Personal Details

|Name |Ilija Vukotic |

|Address |Office |University of Chicago |

| | |5620 S Ellis Ave |

| | |Chicago IL 60637, USA |

| |Home |1606 E. 50th Pl. Apt #13E |

| | |60615 Chicago, USA |

|Phone |Office |+33 1 64 46 82 78 |

| |Fax |+33 1 69 07 94 04 |

| |Mobile |+33 6 66 46 73 80 |

|Email |ivukotic@cern.ch; vukotic@lal.in2p3.fr |

|Date and place of birth |24. July 1974, Niksic, Yugoslavia |

|Gender |Male |

|Nationality |Montenegrin |

Education

|2005 |Ph.D., Humboldt University, Department of High Energy Physics, Berlin, Germany |

| |Thesis title: Measurement of J/( and ((2S) Production in Proton-Nucleus Interactions using the |

| |HERA-B Experiment |

| |Responsible for calibrations of tracking detector. |

|1999 |M.Sc., University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia Development and Application |

| |of the Genetic Algorithms in Describing Binding Energy of Nuclei |

|1998 |B.Sc., Applied Physics and Informatics, |

| |Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade |

Employment

|March 2012 -… |University of Chicago, Chicago, USA – staff position. Organizing work and developing parts of the |

| |federated data access system (FAX) for ATLAS experiment. Specifically dCache plugins for name |

| |mapping and federation monitoring; several monitoring frontends. Coordinated standardization of |

| |data storage monitoring. |

|Dec 2008 – Mar. 2012 |Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Paris, France – CDD. Conceived, organized and executed full system |

| |of monitoring all of the official ATLAS production jobs. All of the performance data from more |

| |than 200 thousands jobs per day are collected and summarized in Oracle databases. Planed and |

| |executed a system for monitoring and optimization of IO performance of HammerCloud jobs. |

| |Investigations on possible usage of GP GPU computing methods inside and outside of ATLAS context. |

|2006 – Dec.2008 |Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Paris, France – PostDoc position. |

| |Software performance optimization and data analysis for the ATLAS experiment, CERN, Geneva. |

| |Since this experiment will produce data at 60 TB/day rate, software optimization is essential |

| |despite having some of the largest computer farms in the world. CPU time, memory and disk space, |

| |are squeezed to the limit. I am frequently delivering order of magnitude improvements on all three|

| |by means of code optimization, algorithm improvements and advance knowledge based compression. |

| |This is all done in C++ with python based interface and is GRID enabled. |

| |I have performed the full chain of Higgs search data analysis starting from Monte Carlo |

| |generation, signal extraction and cuts optimization to systematic effect estimation. |

|2006 |Public institution Center for Eco-toxicological Research (JU CETI) – permanent position. Design |

| |and implementation of network, data acquisition and document flow. |

|2005 |Midland Ltd. steel plant, Niksic, Montenegro – permanent position. Designed, organized work and |

| |implemented automatization of: process control systems, access control system, video surveillance |

| |and safety system, phone and network systems, databases and financial software. |

Skills

|Computing |Languages: |

| |7 years of C/C++ programming. Mostly gcc but also Visual C++. |

| |3 years of Visual Studio .NET. |

| |2 years of Java, Python, shell programming. |

| |1 year of GP GPU of both Cuda and OpenCL. OpenMPI |

| |Experience in ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl. |

| | |

| |Operating systems: |

| |Linux, Windows, MacOS, HP/UNIX, ALPHA/Digital Unix. |

| | |

| |Packages: |

| |R, MS Office, SharePoint, Crystal Reports, Valgrind, ROOT,... |

| | |

| |Databases: |

| |MS SQL and MySQL, ORACLE. |

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| |Distributed computing: |

| |Expert user of GRID systems, online and offline Linux PC farms. |

| | |

| |DAQ systems: both hardware and software. |

|Analytical |I have strong mathematical skills with an excellent working knowledge in statistics. Ability to |

| |develop, test and use novel algorithms is my strongest point. |

| |In data analysis, I pay scrupulous attention to details. |

|Presentation |I reported regularly on meetings and conferences, and got excellent experience in writing reports. |

|Language |Fluent in English, learning French, Serbo-Croatian (native). |

Publications

Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D0 →(+(- with the HERA-B detector, Phys. Lett. B 596, 173 (2004)

Measurement of the BBbar production cross section in 920 GeV fixed-target proton nucleus collisions, Eur. Phys. J. C 26, 345 (2003)

J/( production via (c decays in 920 GeV pA interactions,

Phys. Lett. B 561, 61 (2003)

Aging studies for the large honeycomb drift tube system of the outer tracker of HERA-B, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 515, 155 (2003)

Inclusive V0 production cross sections from 920 GeV fixed target proton-nucleus collisions, Eur. Phys. J. C 29, 181 (2003)

The HERA-B Outer Tracker Detector Part I: Detector, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 555 (2005) 310.

The Outer Tracker Detector of the HERA-B Experiment part II: Front-End Electronics, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 541 (2005) 610.

The Outer Tracker Detector of the HERA-B Experiment part III: Operation and Performance, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 576 (2007) 312-330.

Limits for the central production of (+ and (-- pentaquarks in 920 GeV pA collisions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 212003 1-6 (2004)

How should we Fit the Differential Cross Section of J/( Production, HERA-B Note 04-027, (2004)

Measurement of the J/ψ Production Cross Section in 920 GeV/c Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Interactions, submitted to Phys. Lett. B

Improved measurement of the B-BBAR Production Cross Section in 920 GeV/c Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus collisions, Phys. Rev.D vol.73, 052005, issue 5 (2005)

Measurement of the ( Production Cross Section in 920 GeV/c Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Collisions, submitted to Elsevier Science

Polarization of ( and (bar in 920 GeV/c Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Collisions, submitted to Phys. Lett. B (2006)

A Measurement of the Psi' to J/psi Production Ratio in 920 GeV Proton-Nucleus Interactions, submitted to Eur.Phys.J.C.(2006)

Luminosity determination at HERA-B

Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A582 (2007), 401-412, (2007)

Measurement of D^0, D^+, D_s^+ and D^{*+} Production in Fixed Target 920 GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions

Eur.Phys.J.C52, 531-542, (2007)

V0 Production in p+A Collisions at √s = 41.6 GeV

arXiv:0812.0471 submitted to Eur.Phys.J.C (2008)

Angular Distributions of Leptons from J/Psi's Produced in 920 Gev Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Collisions,

arXiv:0901.1015 accepted for publication by Eur.Phys.J.C (2009)

Production of the Charmonium States chic_1 and chic_2 in Proton Nucleus Interactions √s = 41.6 GeV

arXiv:0807.2167 Phys. Rev. D 79, 012001 (2009), Vol.79, Issue 1 [18 p.]

Kinematic Distributions and Nuclear Effects of J/psi Production in 920 GeV Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Collisions

arXiv:0812.0734 accepted for publication by Eur.Phys.J.C(2009)

Conference Contributions

Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI, Tanka Village, Sardinia, 21-25. September 2004.

"Open and Hidden Charm Production in 920 GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions at HERA-B", proceedings published by American Institute of Physics.

CHEP 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Optimization and Performance Measurements of ROOT-based Data Formats in the ATLAS Experiment” 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 032032 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/331/3/032032

Future computing in particle physics 2011 e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK

“Atlas IO improvements and Future prospects” and

“GP using GPGPU - my experience with OpenCL”

CHEP 2012, New York, USA.

“Using Xrootd to Federate Regional Storage”,

“Monitoring of computing resource utilization of the ATLAS experiment”,

“The ATLAS ROOT-based data formats: recent improvements and performance measurements”, accepted for publication by J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

Interests

Computational neuroscience, GenetiX, tennis, hiking...

References

References available upon request.

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