Oliver K. Baker
Oliver K. Baker, the D. Allan Bromley Physics Professor at Yale University, conducts research in experimental particle physics. His leadership role in the construction of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT), and use of machine learning were essential in the Higgs boson discovery. His current research in quantum entanglement, quantum computing, entanglement entropy, and searches for phenomena that are beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics uses Higgs production and decay. Baker earned a Ph.D. in Physics, an MS in Physics and Mathematics at Stanford University, and a BS in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society. He was the 2006 US Presidential appointee to the board of the National Medal of Science.