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Robert “Rob” Roser is a particle physicist and currently serves as Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Chief Data Officer, Chief Information Security Officer as well as the Director for Information and Knowledge Management.
Prior to INL, Rob spent 25 years at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), America’s premier particle physics laboratory located outside of Chicago Illinois where he held the role of distinguished scientist and served in a number of scientific and laboratory leadership roles.
Most recently at FNAL, Roser served as the project scientist for the lab’s $3.2B flagship project Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) where he was charged with the design and construction of a high intensity neutrino beam and capable of delivering a megawatt powered beam aimed at a detector located in western South Dakota.
Prior to that, Roser served as the lab’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this role, he was responsible for scientific (high performance) computing, business systems, and information technology governance as well as cyber security.
Earlier in his career, Roser led for almost a decade Fermilab’s flagship experiment the Collider Detector Experiment (CDF) which operated in the Tevatron accelerator. This experiment, consisted of more than 700 scientists from 60 academic institutions across 15 countries, CDF is best known for the discovery of the Top Quark and first evidence of the long sought-after Higgs Boson. Under Roser’s leadership the experiment published ~450 refereed scientific papers.
Dr. Roser received his bachelor’s degree from the Univ. of Connecticut and his doctorate from the Univ. of Rochester; he was a post-doctoral research associate at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining Fermilab as a Wilson Fellow.
He is a member of numerous scientific advisory panels, a fellow of the American Physical Society and is the author of over 670-refereed publications.
High Energy Physics -- current focus is understanding the properties of the muon.
I spent 30 years as an experimental particle physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. I spent much of my time finding and trying to understand the properties of the top quark. Its lifetime was measured in yoctoseconds (10^-25 seconds). I also dedicated a lot of time to the search for the Higgs Boson.
I remain a member of the DUNE collaboration and using neutrino's as a probe to understand some of the "flaws" in today's Standard Model.At INL, with my cyber hat on, trying to develop tools to identify malicious network traffic from trusted sources. These tools will require AI techniques and more.
Fellow of American Physical Society in Div. of Particles and Fields
Strategic Laboratory Leadership Position, The University of Chicago
Award Date: Aug 1 2011
PhD, Experimental Particle Physics, University of Rochester
Award Date: May 1 1994
Master, Experimental Physics, University of Rochester
Award Date: May 1 1986
Bachelor, Physics, University of Connecticut
Award Date: May 1 1984
Board Member, Institute for Pervasive Cyber Security, Boise State University
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate