Papers

Here are some of the academic papers I have written on machine learning, high energy physics, and cosmology.

Machine Learning

• Ni et al. “Sampled Image Tagging and Retrieval Methods on User Generated Content” British Machine Vision Conference 2017. (arXiv:1611.06962)

Physics

High Energy Physics

• Gude, Alexander. “Measurement of the phistar distribution of Z bosons decaying to electron pairs with the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV” Ph.D. Thesis for the University of Minnesota. (UMN Library) (Video of Defense) (Readable summary)
• CMS Collaboration. “Search for heavy neutrinos and W bosons with right-handed couplings in proton–proton collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV” Eur. Phys. J. C. vol. 74. 2014. pp. 3149. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3149-z.
• CMS Collaboration. “Measurement of the Rapidity and Transverse Momentum Distributions of Z Bosons in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV” Phys. Rev. D. vol. 85. 2012. pp. 032002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032002.

Supernova Cosmology

• Gude, Alexander. “Spectral Study of Twenty-Three Type Ia Supernovae Using Principal Component Analysis” UC Berkeley Honors Thesis. 2008.
• Suzuki et al. “The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: V. Improving the Dark Energy Constraints Above z>1 and Building an Early-Type-Hosted Supernova Sample” ApJ. vol. 746, no. 1. 2012. pp. 85. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/85.
• Dawson et al. “An Intensive HST Survey for z>1 Supernovae by Targeting Galaxy Clusters” AJ. vol. 138, no. 5. 2009. pp. 1271. doi: 10.1088/0004-6256/138/5/1271.
• Barbary et al. “Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope” ApJ. vol. 690, no. 2. 2009. pp. 1358. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/1358.
• Kuznetsova et al. “A New Determination of the High-Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys” ApJ. vol. 673, no. 2. 2008. pp. 981. doi: 10.1086/524881.