Congratulations to Jessica Bohm, who has been named the 2023 Co-Op Student of the Year for the Faculty of Mathematics.
Jessica Bohm, a fourth-year computer science student, made a meaningful impact during her co-op work term at TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre, in winter and spring of 2023.
As an ATLAS deep learning research assistant, Bohm utilized her analytical skills to conduct groundbreaking research that will contribute to evolving particle acceleration.
Bohm had the opportunity to test a variety of machine models to determine their quality and performance. She demonstrated both her capabilities and resilience by accompanying this work with complex research.
“Through my time (at TRIUMF), we learned that the models did perform quite well on certain aspects of the overall goal,” Bohm said. ”I was excited to hear that the work I had done, the research and development of these machine learning models, could be used in the final reconstruction process of the ATLAS data.”
Bohm worked in image segmentation for the development of ATLAS’s reconstruction software. The reconstruction aims to track data collected from the European Council for Nuclear Research’s (CERN’s) Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator in the world. Particle accelerators are used to make radioactive materials used in research, technology and medicine.
“I was shocked when I saw that there was an opportunity to work here as a student,” Bohm said. “I was always in awe of the big detectors. Reading about them in the news and being able to be a part of it was exciting.”
Using her computer science knowledge throughout her co-op terms, Bohm developed skills in research, data analysis, machine learning and problem-solving.
Read about the other students named Co-Op Student of the Year in the full article from Waterloo News.