NEWS
News and highlights
AUG
2026
The Accelerated Intelligence & Particle Physics Lab
opens at NTHU
Milestone
Recruitment
Yuan-Tang
Chou joins the Department of Physics as Assistant Professor. The lab begins recruiting its founding
cohort of Ph.D., M.S., and undergraduate students — see the Join Us page.
JUL
2026
Yi-Ren Wu presents
preference-optimized generative inference at BOOST 2026
Poster
Presenting
an EveNet-based generative framework that uses Direct Group Preference Optimization (DGPO) to improve
underconstrained kinematic reconstruction with invisible particles while preserving multimodal
solutions,
in Kraków, Poland.
JAN
2026
EveNet: A Foundation Model for
Particle Collision Data Analysis
Paper
Pretrained
on 500 million simulated collision events, EveNet outperforms leading baselines across diverse analysis
tasks and demonstrates transfer to experimental data using CMS Open Data. arXiv:2601.17126
NOV
2025
Efficient Point
Transformer tracking presented at Connecting The Dots 2025
Talk
Presenting
attention-based next-generation track reconstruction at the University of Tokyo.
OCT
2025
HEPTv2 accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 ML4PS
Workshop
Paper
Locality-Sensitive
Hashing-Based Efficient Point Transformer introduces HEPTv2, whose lightweight decoder removes post-hoc
clustering and reaches approximately 28 ms per event on an A100 while maintaining competitive tracking
efficiency. arXiv:2510.07594
SEP
2025
Invited plenary at ACAT 2025, Hamburg
Talk
Presenting
SONIC, a portable framework for as-a-service ML serving. SuperSONIC also featured at PEARC25 and Fast ML
for Science 2025 in Zurich.
JUL
2025
Higgs → 4b/6b
scalar search published in Phys. Rev. D 112 (2025) 072005
Paper
A
seven-year search led as primary analyzer, setting the most stringent limits on several BSM light-scalar
models. Phys. Rev. D 112 (2025) 072005 · arXiv:2507.01165
MAY
2025
Invited talk at LHCP 2025, Taipei
Talk
Presenting
recent heavy H/A results in ATLAS at the 13th LHC Physics Conference, National Taiwan University.
FEB
2025
Invited plenary at
ATLAS Collaboration Week: taggers for BSM particles
Talk
Presented at
CERN during the 'Building the ATLAS of Tomorrow' collaboration week.
2025
NERSC Director Reserve Allocation
Award (AI for Science)
Award
Awarded
10,000 GPU and 3,000 CPU node-hours to develop an event-level foundation model for HEP
analysis.
2025
Appointed ATLAS b-jet Trigger Signature
Coordinator
Service
Leading
~20 physicists developing Run 3 High-Level Trigger b-jet algorithms and official ATLAS
recommendations.
DEC
2024
NeurIPS 2024
Competition: FAIR Universe HiggsML Uncertainty Challenge
Award
Event
Co-organized
the uncertainty-aware AI competition with 180+ teams; also co-organized the NSF HDR Hackathon intro
session at National Taiwan University.
DEC
2024
Seminar at NTHU:
'Unconventional Search in an Unconventional Way'
Talk
Returning to the
alma mater in Hsinchu for a high-energy physics seminar.