About

My name is Caleb Smith. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas, and I study experimental high energy physics. I seek to understand the fundamental components (particles) and interactions (forces) of nature through experimentation!

I work on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, which is one of four particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. I have worked on the CMS experiment for about ten years, and I have made important contributions through a variety of hardware, software, and data analysis projects.

I enjoy learning new skills, solving hard problems, and building cool things with software. I also enjoy creating data visualizations and gaining new insights from data.

I live in Lawrence, Kansas with my wife, Katie. ❤️