Matthew Jones

Education:

  B.Sc. Math/Physics, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 1990
  M.Sc. Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1992
  Ph.D. Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1997

Positions Held:
  Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 2003-present
  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-2003

Research Experience and Service Work:
  From 1991-1997 I worked on the OPAL experiment at CERN studying heavy
  flavor production in e+e- collisions.  During this time I developed the
  online event reconstruction farm for the OPAL experiment.  My thesis
  topic was the production of P-wave charm mesons in Z0 decays.

  I joined Penn in 1997 specifically to work on the proposed Time-of-Flight
  detector for the CDF experiment.  We brought this project through the
  approval process, designed the front-end electronics and successfully
  installed and commissioned the detector for use in heavy flavor physics
  analyses in Run-II.  The successful operation of the TOF detector was
  a key element of the analysis which led to the observation of Bs
  oscillations at CDF.

  In 2002 I served as operations manager for the CDF at a time
  when the experiment was making the transition from commissioning to 
  a mode of stable detector operations.  I have served as co-leader
  of the B-reconstruction and flavor tagging working group at CDF and 
  continue my ongoing role as Time-of-Flight project leader.

  As an assistant professor at Purdue I now have to balance research
  and teaching responsibilities.  Extending the focus on efficient
  detector operations, we contributed to upgrades of the CDF level 1
  track trigger and are currently completing the integration of a level 2
  calorimeter trigger upgrade.  I continue to study heavy flavor and Higgs
  production with CDF, but am now migrating towards more involvement
  in CMS tracking and trigger upgrades.  I am also involved in physics
  outreach efforts through Purdue's QuarkNet program which I have
  successfully integrated into an undergraduate course that provides
  support to high school teachers who wish to incorporate modern high
  energy physics instrumentation into their curriculum and classroom
  activities.