General Information

Education

B.A. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley 2016

Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021

Additional Information

Link to the Experimental Nuclear Physics Group at Lamar:

Selected Publications:

Multiplicity dependent J/ψ and ψ(2S) production at forward and backward rapidity in pp collisions at √s = 200 GeV
PHENIX Collaboration, Physical Review D Letters, Rev. D 112 (2025) 5, L051103, Published 29 September, 2025

Development of the AI-based online trigger algorithms for heavy flavor events selection in sPHENIX experiment
Yaozhong Chen, Kai Chen, Lei Lang, Biao Zhang, Hongtao Li, Zipeng Cheng, Jun Liu, Yaping Wang, Ming Liu, and Zhaozhong Shi, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1075 (2025) 170435, Published 23 March, 2025

Intelligent experiments through real-time AI: Fast Data Processing and Au- tonomous Detector Control for sPHENIX and future EIC detectors,
J. Kvapil, G. Borca-Tasciuc, H. Bossi, K. Chen, Y. Chen, Y. Corrales Morales, H. Da Costa, C. Da Silva, C. Dean, J. Durham, S. Fu, C. Hao, P. Harris, O. Hen, H. Jheng, Y. Lee, P. Li, X. Li, Y. Lin, M. X. Liu, V. Loncar, J. P. Mitrevski, A. Olvera, M. L. Purschke, J. S. Renck, G. Roland, J. Schambach, Z. Shi, N. Tran, N. Wuerfel, B. Xu, D. Yu, and H. Zhang, ICHEP 2024 Conference Proceedings, Proceedings of Science, Published 07 January, 2025

Bottom quark energy loss and hadronization with B+ and B0 nuclear modification 
CMS Collaboration, Journal of High Energy Physics, JHEP 02 195, Published on 27 February 2025

Heavy Flavor Physics at the sPHENIX Experiment
Zhaozhong Shi, on behalf of sPHENIX Collaboration, Special Issue “Multiparticle Dynam- ics”, Universe Journal (ISSN 2218-1997), MDPI, Published 06 March 2024

A demonstrator for a real-time AI-FPGA-based triggering system for sPHENIX at RHIC
J. Kvapil, G. Borca-Tasciuc, H. Bossi, K. Chen, Y. Chen, Y. Corrales Morales, H. Da Costa, C. Da Silva, C. Dean, J. Durham, S. Fu, C. Hao, P. Harris, O. Hen, H. Jheng, Y. Lee, P. Li, X. Li, M. X. Liu, A. Olvera, M. L. Purschke, M. Rigatti, G. Roland, J. Schambach, Z. Shi, N. Tran, N. Wuerfel, B. Xu, D. Yu, and H. Zhang, TWEPP 2023 Conference Proceedings, JINST 19 C02066, Published 27 February 2024

End-to-End Pipeline for Trigger Detection on Hit and Track Graphs
Tingting Xuan, Yimin Zhu, Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc, Ming Xiong Liu, Yu Sun, Cameron Dean, Yasser Corrales Morales, Zhaozhong Shi, and Dantong Yu, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(13), 15752-15758, Published 06 September 2023

Measurements of J/ψ Production vs Event Multiplicity in the Forward Rapidity in p + p Collisions in the PHENIX Experiment
Zhaozhong Shi, on behalf of PHENIX Collaboration, Special Issue “Zim ́anyi School – Heavy Ion Physics”, Universe Journal (ISSN 2218-1997), MDPI, Published 04 July 2023

Trigger Detection for the sPHENIX Experiment via Bipartite Graph Networks with Set Transformer
Tingting Xuan, Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc, Yimin Zhu, Yu Sun, Cameron Dean, Zhaozhong Shi, and Dantong Yu, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. ECML PKDD 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13715. Springer, Cham - Published 17 March 2023

Development of Future Electromagnetic Calorimeter Technologies and Applications for the Electron-Ion Collider with GEANT 4 Simulations
/>Zhaozhong Shi, Craig Woody, Ian Delk, and John Lajoie, EPJ Web of Conferences 276 (05001) - Published 01 March 2023

Observation of B0 mesons and measurement of the B0/B+ yield ratio in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV 
CMS Collaboration, Physics Letters B 829 (2022) 137062 - Published 10 June 2022

Studies of Strange and Non-Strange Beauty Productions in PbPb Collisions with the CMS Detectorz
Zhaozhong Shi, on behalf of CMS Collaboration, Quark Matter 2019 Conference Proceedings, Nuclear Physics A 1005 - Published 15 January 2021

Design and Beam Test Results for the 2D Projective sPHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter Prototype
C. Aidala, S. Altaf, R. Belmont, S. Boose, D. Cacace, M. Connors, E. Desmond, J. Frantz, E. Gamez, N. Grau, J. Haggerty, A. Hodges, J. Huang, Y. Kim, M. Lenz, W. Lenz, N. Lewis, E. Mannel, J. Osborn, D. Perepelitsa, M. Phipps, R. Pisani, S. Polizzo, A. Pun, M. Purschke, C. Riedl, T. Rinn, A. Romero Hernandez, M. Sarsour, Z. Shi, A. Sickles, C. Smith, S. Stoll, X. Sun, E. Thorsland, F. Vassalli, X. Wang, and C. Woody, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci, (No. TNS-00239-2020.) - Published 13 January 2021

D0 Meson RAA in PbPb Collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV and Elliptic Flow in pPb Collisions at √sNN = 8.16 TeV with CMS
Zhaozhong Shi, on behalf of CMS Collaboration, Quark Matter 2018 Conference Proceedings,
Nuclear Physics A 982C - Published 22 January 2019, 647 - 650

Effects of the Kinetic Symmetry Energy Reduced by Short-Range Correlations in Heavy-Ion Collisions at Intermediate Energies
Bao-An Li, Wen-Jun Guo, and Zhaozhong Shi: Physical Review C 91, 044601 - Published 1 April 2015