Margaret R. Lazarovits

Margaret R. Lazarovits is a 2019-2023 Self Graduate Fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Kansas. Originally from Santa Barbara, CA, she received her B.A. with general honors in physics and a minor in theater and performance studies from the University of Chicago in 2018. Lazarovits’ PhD dissertation work is on using precision timing and unsupervised machine learning to classify jets at the Large Hadron Collider with the CMS Experiment. Her Masters of Science in Computational Physics thesis was developing a novel method for estimating the fake leptonic background for her group’s search for dark matter. Previously, she tested the mechanical robustness of bump bonds for timing detector sensor prototypes in a collaboration with KU Mechanical Engineering. Outside of the lab, Lazarovits founded Learning Machine Learning, an interdisciplinary organization that meets weekly to discuss machine learning and its applications in scientific research, in Spring 2019. She also founded the Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Organization in Spring 2021 and is a former executive officer. Lazarovits is also a Fall 2022 intern for UVF Crossroads, a venture capital program for and by students.

Mentor: Christopher Rogan, J.D. Stranathan Assistant Professor of Experimental Physics, Physics and Astronomy