Javier Duarte earned his Bachelor’s degree from MIT and his PhD from CalTech. After three postdoctoral years as a Lederman Fellow, he joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in 2019 and was promoted to tenure in 2023. As a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, he applies artificial intelligence to analyzing the collisions of high-energy particles. He won the American Physical Society’s prestigious Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics in 2024, and in fact receives the award at the APS April Meeting a few days after his Darema lecture.

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