Yale Physics welcomes Tyler Stokes, a new postdoctoral associate and member of Yale’s Wright Lab who is working with Karsten Heeger and Reina Maruyama.
Stokes is an experimental neutrino physicist who has been working on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) experiment since 2018, and his current research focuses on the coordination and creation of the Charge-Readout-Plane (CRP) assembly effort at Wright Lab.
In addition to detector development, Stokes is involved in simulation, reconstruction, and analysis efforts for the DUNE Far Detector and ProtoDUNE-VD, including machine learning applications. He is also interested in baryon number violation searches.
Stokes earned his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University and his undergraduate degree from Idaho State University . Before joining Yale, he contributed to the DUNE experiment on many fronts, including hardware development and installation work on the high voltage system of ProtoDUNE-HD at CERN, machine learning applications to proton decay in the DUNE far detectors, and some kaon cross-section studies with ProtoDUNE-SP.