CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Details
Ilija Vukotic
Name
University of Chicago
5620 S Ellis Ave
Chicago IL 60637, USA
1606 E. 50th Pl. Apt #13E
60615 Chicago, USA
+33 1 64 46 82 78
+33 1 69 07 94 04
+33 6 66 46 73 80
Office
Address
Home
Phone
Office
Fax
Mobile
Email
ivukotic@cern.ch; vukotic@lal.in2p3.fr
Date and place of birth
24. July 1974, Niksic, Yugoslavia
Gender
Male
Nationality
Montenegrin
Education
2005
Ph.D., Humboldt University, Department of High Energy
Physics, Berlin, Germany
Thesis title: Measurement of J/ and (2S) Production in
Proton-Nucleus Interactions using the HERA-B Experiment
Responsible for calibrations of tracking detector.
1999
M.Sc., University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physics, Belgrade,
Serbia Development and Application of the Genetic Algorithms
in Describing Binding Energy of Nuclei
1998
B.Sc., Applied Physics and Informatics,
Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade
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Employment
March 2012 -…
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA – staff position.
Organizing work and developing parts of the federated data access
system (FAX) for ATLAS experiment. Specifically dCache
plugins for name mapping and federation monitoring; several
monitoring frontends. Coordinated standardization of data storage
monitoring.
Dec 2008 – Mar. 2012
Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Paris, France – CDD.
Conceived, organized and executed full system of monitoring all
of the official ATLAS production jobs. All of the performance
data from more than 200 thousands jobs per day are collected and
summarized in Oracle databases. Planed and executed a system
for monitoring and optimization of IO performance of
HammerCloud jobs. Investigations on possible usage of GP GPU
computing methods inside and outside of ATLAS context.
2006 – Dec.2008
Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Paris, France – PostDoc
position.
Software performance optimization and data analysis for the
ATLAS experiment, CERN, Geneva.
Since this experiment will produce data at 60 TB/day rate,
software optimization is essential despite having some of the
largest computer farms in the world. CPU time, memory and disk
space, are squeezed to the limit. I am frequently delivering order
of magnitude improvements on all three by means of code
optimization, algorithm improvements and advance knowledge
based compression. This is all done in C++ with python based
interface and is GRID enabled.
I have performed the full chain of Higgs search data analysis
starting from Monte Carlo generation, signal extraction and cuts
optimization to systematic effect estimation.
2006
Public institution Center for Eco-toxicological Research (JU
CETI) – permanent position. Design and implementation of
network, data acquisition and document flow.
2005
Midland Ltd. steel plant, Niksic, Montenegro – permanent
position. Designed, organized work and implemented
automatization of: process control systems, access control system,
video surveillance and safety system, phone and network systems,
databases and financial software.
Skills
Computing
Ilija Vukotic
Languages:
7 years of C/C++ programming. Mostly gcc but also Visual C++.
3 years of Visual Studio .NET.
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2 years of Java, Python, shell programming.
1 year of GP GPU of both Cuda and OpenCL. OpenMPI
Experience in ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl.
Operating systems:
Linux, Windows, MacOS, HP/UNIX, ALPHA/Digital Unix.
Packages:
R, MS Office, SharePoint, Crystal Reports, Valgrind, ROOT,...
Databases:
MS SQL and MySQL, ORACLE.
Distributed computing:
Expert user of GRID systems, online and offline Linux PC farms.
DAQ systems: both hardware and software.
Analytical
I have strong mathematical skills with an excellent working
knowledge in statistics. Ability to develop, test and use novel
algorithms is my strongest point.
In data analysis, I pay scrupulous attention to details.
Presentation
I reported regularly on meetings and conferences, and got excellent
experience in writing reports.
Language
Fluent in English, learning French, Serbo-Croatian (native).
Publications
Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D0 →+- with the HERA-B
detector, Phys. Lett. B 596, 173 (2004)
Measurement of the BBbar production cross section in 920 GeV fixed-target proton
nucleus collisions, Eur. Phys. J. C 26, 345 (2003)
J/ production via c decays in 920 GeV pA interactions,
Phys. Lett. B 561, 61 (2003)
Aging studies for the large honeycomb drift tube system of the outer tracker of
HERA-B, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 515, 155 (2003)
Inclusive V0 production cross sections from 920 GeV fixed target proton-nucleus
collisions, Eur. Phys. J. C 29, 181 (2003)
The HERA-B Outer Tracker Detector Part I: Detector, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 555
(2005) 310.
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The Outer Tracker Detector of the HERA-B Experiment part II: Front-End
Electronics, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 541 (2005) 610.
The Outer Tracker Detector of the HERA-B Experiment part III: Operation and
Performance, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 576 (2007) 312-330.
Limits for the central production of + and -- pentaquarks in 920 GeV pA collisions,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 212003 1-6 (2004)
How should we Fit the Differential Cross Section of J/ Production, HERA-B Note
04-027, (2004)
Measurement of the J/ψ Production Cross Section in 920 GeV/c Fixed-Target
Proton-Nucleus Interactions, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Improved measurement of the B-BBAR Production Cross Section in 920 GeV/c
Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus collisions, Phys. Rev.D vol.73, 052005, issue 5 (2005)
Measurement of the  Production Cross Section in 920 GeV/c Fixed-Target ProtonNucleus Collisions, submitted to Elsevier Science
Polarization of  and bar in 920 GeV/c Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Collisions,
submitted to Phys. Lett. B (2006)
A Measurement of the Psi' to J/psi Production Ratio in 920 GeV Proton-Nucleus
Interactions, submitted to Eur.Phys.J.C.(2006)
Luminosity determination at HERA-B
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A582 (2007), 401-412, (2007)
Measurement of D^0, D^+, D_s^+ and D^{*+} Production in Fixed Target 920 GeV
Proton-Nucleus Collisions
Eur.Phys.J.C52, 531-542, (2007)
V0 Production in p+A Collisions at √s = 41.6 GeV
arXiv:0812.0471 submitted to Eur.Phys.J.C (2008)
Angular Distributions of Leptons from J/Psi's Produced in 920 Gev Fixed-Target
Proton-Nucleus Collisions,
arXiv:0901.1015 accepted for publication by Eur.Phys.J.C (2009)
Production of the Charmonium States chic_1 and chic_2 in Proton Nucleus
Interactions √s = 41.6 GeV
arXiv:0807.2167 Phys. Rev. D 79, 012001 (2009), Vol.79, Issue 1 [18 p.]
Kinematic Distributions and Nuclear Effects of J/psi Production in 920 GeV FixedTarget Proton-Nucleus Collisions
arXiv:0812.0734 accepted for publication by Eur.Phys.J.C(2009)
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Conference Contributions
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI, Tanka Village, Sardinia, 21-25.
September 2004.
"Open and Hidden Charm Production in 920 GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions at
HERA-B", proceedings published by American Institute of Physics.
CHEP 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Optimization and Performance Measurements of ROOT-based Data Formats in the
ATLAS Experiment” 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 331 032032 doi:10.1088/17426596/331/3/032032
Future computing in particle physics 2011 e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK
“Atlas IO improvements and Future prospects” and
“GP using GPGPU - my experience with OpenCL”
CHEP 2012, New York, USA.
“Using Xrootd to Federate Regional Storage”,
“Monitoring of computing resource utilization of the ATLAS experiment”,
“The ATLAS ROOT-based data formats: recent improvements and performance
measurements”, accepted for publication by J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.
Interests
Computational neuroscience, GenetiX, tennis, hiking...
References
References available upon request.
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