Stephen Sekula
Research Group Manager at Queen's University
Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolStephen Sekula is a research group manager at SNOLAB and a Professor of Physics at Queen's University with over a decade of experience leading experimental efforts in particle and astroparticle physics. He spent 2009–2022 on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, where he probed Higgs boson properties, advanced flavor-tagging and b-jet trigger systems, and later investigated Higgs self-interactions. A seasoned academic leader—former Department Chair at SMU and graduate director—he now oversees SNOLAB research scientists while auditing lab policies and liaising with the user community. He combines deep experimental expertise with hands-on programming and open-source interests, bridging detector development, data-driven analysis, and collaborative software tools. Based in Greater Sudbury, he brings a rare mix of large-collaboration physics experience and operational leadership in underground astroparticle research.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Yale University
Github Skills (28)
minecraft10
diaspora9
activitystreams9
ubuntu9
debian9
chromiumos9
chroot9
chromeos9
shell8
streaming8
crouton8
high-energy-physics8
linux8
nodejs8
broadcasting8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stephensekula/navierstokes
Aug 2014 - Feb 2023
A bridge between some social networks to improve broadcasting and sharing.
Contributions:1 review, 63 commits, 9 PRs in 8 years 7 months
social-networkbridgesharingstreamingdiaspora
stephensekula/pi_monte_carlo_lecture
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
A computational physics lecture on Monte Carlo techniques and the computation of pi
Contributions:16 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
computational-physicsmonte-carlo
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