Huanfeng Cheng

Here is the curriculum vitae of Huanfeng, which is probably shorter but more detailed than a standard CV. Huanfeng enjoyed his Ph.D. journey and appreciated the time in academia, as well as in the “good neighbour city”.

• Education
• Research Interests
• Publications
• Presentations
• Conferences and Schools Attendance
• Academic Appointments
• Research Skills

D: “…there is one more thing…since you have graduated, we are colleagues now, you can just call me ‘Doreen’…”

H: “ok i will try, i have to get used to it…i noticed yesterday when you sent email to nicole, you put the title in front of my name, it is the first time someone…”

(10/11/2022)

Education 🔗

Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, August 2022

• Advisor: Doreen Wackeroth
• Dissertation: Improved Predictions of Triple Gauge Boson Production at the Large Hadron Collider

  Huanfeng has constructed a Monte Carlo framwork capable of computing the cross sections of processes in the Standard Model at NLO electroweak and QCD accuracy. The results presented in the dissertation focus on the predictions of $W^{+}Z\gamma$ production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

  The first observation of $WZ\gamma$ production at the LHC is reported by the ATLAS Collaboration in March, 2023. Cheers.

Advanced Certificate of Computational Science
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, June 2022

B.S. in Physics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, June 2014

Research Interests 🔗

• Collider Phenomenology, Precision Calculations
• Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT)
• Monte Carlo Event Generator
• Machine Learning Techniques

Publications 🔗

Huanfeng Cheng and Doreen Wackeroth, NLO electroweak and QCD corrections to the production of a photon with three charged lepton plus missing energy at the LHC, Phys. Rev. D 105 096009 (2022), arXiv: 2112.12052.

Presentations 🔗

Thesis Defense
Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, July 29th, 2022
Improved Predictions for Triple Electroweak Gauge Boson Production at the Large Hadron Collider

HEPCOS ¹ Journal Club
Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, October 29th, 2021
The Impact of Dimension-8 SMEFT Contributions: A Case Study
arXiv: 2110.06929

Conference talk 🔗
The APS Division of Particles & Fields (DPF) Meeting, July 14th, 2021
NLO EW corrections to WZA production in SM and tree-level effects of dim-8 operators in SMEFT at the LHC

Conference talk 🔗
Phenomenology Symposium, May 26th, 2021
NLO corrections to WZA production in SM and tree-level effects of dim-8 operators in SMEFT at the LHC

HEPCOS Journal Club
Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, December 6th, 2019
NNLO QCD corrections to three-photon production at the LHC
arXiv: 1911.00479

Thesis Topic Defense
Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, October 30th, 2019
NLO corrections to triple gauge boson production at the LHC and implications of gauge couplings in SMEFT

HEPCOS Journal Club
Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, October 12th, 2018
Studies of Dimension-Six EFT effects in Vector Boson Scattering
arXiv: 1809.04189

Conferences and Schools Attendance 🔗

The APS Division of Particles & Fields (DPF) Meeting 🔗
Virtual, July 12th - 14th, 2021

Phenomenology Symposium 🔗
Virtual, May 24th - 26th, 2021

Phenomenology Symposium 🔗
Virtual, May 4th - 6th, 2020

Precision Effective Field Theory School 🔗
@DESY, Hamburg, Germany, March 1st ~ 13th, 2020

两周像是过了数月，许多收获和遗憾。没有可能浸入、仔细品味、认识，也就不知道该如何回味。希望下次来能去Margot夫妇家做客，能和在DESY做生物、在勃拉姆斯博物馆当志愿者的羽佳同好重逢，能听着巴赫去一次莱比锡和魏玛，到那时候，慕尼黑的杨松斯音乐厅已经落成。

LoopFest  XVIII 🔗
@Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA, August 12th ~ 14th, 2019

五年不见，在食堂碰到，感觉太神奇了。(08/14/2019)

CTEQ School on QCD and Electroweak Phenomenology 🔗
@Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 16th ~ 26th, 2019

能同时领略Collins、Soper和Sterman三位个性迥异的老头儿，应该是由于QCD因子化那篇论文发表三十周年的缘故。也见到了喜欢的Sally和Frank。上午在机场遇到不少同学，都只是大致认识，大家飞回世界各地，期盼以后再会。(07/26/2019)

Phenomenology Symposium 🔗
@University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,  May 6th ~ 8th, 2019

LoopFest XVII 🔗
@Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, July 16th ~ 20th, 2018

Phenomenology Symposium 🔗
@University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,  May 7th ~ 9th, 2018

Academic Appointments 🔗

Research Assistant
SUNY Research Foundation, January ~ May, 2022

Research Assistant
SUNY Research Foundation, June, 2021

Research Assistant
SUNY Research Foundation, June, 2020

Research Assistant
SUNY Research Foundation, July, 2018

Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics, University at Buffalo,  September, 2016 ~ December, 2021

Conducted the following labs and recitations:

• PHY107 Calculus-based General Physics I recitation² (topics on classical mechanics, gravitation, fluid and thermodynamics)
• PHY108 Calculus-based General Physics II recitation (topics on electromagnetism and basic electrical engineering)
• PHY158 Calculus-based General Physics lab³ (topics on classical mechanics and basic electrical engineering)
• PHY101 Non-Calculus-based College Physics recitation (topics on classical mechanics, gravitation, fluid and thermodynamics)
• PHY151 Non-Calculus-based General Physics I lab (topics on classical mechanics)
• PHY152 Non-Calculus-based General Physics II lab (topics on electromagnetism, basic electrical engineering and thermal physics)

Research Skills 🔗

Programming Language: Fortran, Python, Bash, Mathematica

Operating System: Linux, macOS, Windows

Tools: Recola, MadDipole, MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, VBFNLO, Sherpa

Technique: Monte Carlo Simulation, High Performance Computing