Tony Tong's brief bio

My past

First, you can call me Tony.
Or you can call me Baojia. My Chinese name is 佟葆稼.
Currently, I am a machine learning engineer at Kensho Technologies.
My work is about natural language processing.
You can find my current CV here .

I was a physics graduate student from Harvard University.
My research interest was in High Energy Particle Experiments, specifically,
what new particles or matter the LHC could create in Run II at TeV scale,
Then I worked with thousands of physicists to hunt them down!
Except, nothing was found.
So I graduated, and joined the Insight data science program, and transitioned into a data scientist.

I was a member of the Harvard ATLAS group, my adviser is Melissa Franklin.
I was a Teaching Fellow for Physics 16: Mechanics and Special Relativity
, Physics 125: Widely Applied Physics and Physical Science 12: Electricity and Magnetism at Harvard.

My detector work focused on ATLAS Muon offline Data Quality
, which closely relates to understanding detector condition and reconstruction performance.
I also contributed in Muon reconstruction and Hough Transform for segment road finding.

My thesis project is the search of heavy resonance/non-resonance particles
decaying into two boosted Higgs bosons and then into 4b quarks.
This analysis, puts the strongest limit on heavy resonances (>1TeV) decaying into di-Higgs
and a strong limit (currently 29 times the Standard Model prediction) on Higgs self-coupling.
I was also interested in the search for triple W boson production at the LHC.

A bit about my self :
I spent my first 18 years in Mainland China. Tangshan is my hometown.
Then I moved to Tianjin, and eventually to Beijing, which is now my home.
After graduating from Beijing No.4 High School ,
I came to California Institute of Technology to pursue my B.S. in physics.
My undergraduate adviser was David Politzer.
I worked on measuring W/Z + Jets with Maria Spiropulu in the Caltech CMS group.
Previously I worked with Tom Tombrello, Stephen Padin, and Charles Plott.

In addition to physics, I am interested in classical music, especially in Beethoven and Mahler.
I also really enjoy playing/watching basketball and soccer.
I was a varsity swimmer for the Caltech Beavers during my four years of undergrad life.