Ejiro Umaka

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physics Department
Bldg. 510C
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3627
eumaka1@bnl.gov

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Research Activities

Current Activities:

• sPHENIX experiment: contributing to a deeper understanding of the quark gluon plasma by studying its properties with jet and flow observables
• ePIC experiment: contributing to the streaming workflow testbed

Past Activities:

• sPHENIX zero degree calorimeter (ZDC) expert 
• sPHENIX event plane detector & ZDC reconstruction and calibration lead 
• sPHENIX event displays production and coordination
• sPHENIX global reconstruction and analysis lead
• sPHENIX HCAL tile assembly and GEANT simulation

Education

• M.S & Ph.D in High Energy Nuclear Physics, University of Houston, Houston TX, 2020
• B.S. in Biology & Physics, University of Houston, Houston TX, 2014

Professional Appointments

Collaboration Appointments:

• Committee member: sPHENIX publication board, sPHENIX By-laws committee, 2022-2025
• Co-chair: sPHENIX juniors representative, 2022-2024
• Co-chair: ALICE juniors committee, 2020

Awards & Recognition

• Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (recognized as part of the ALICE Collaboration), 2025.
• Certificate of congressional recognition from New York's 1st Congressional District (signed by US representative, Nick LaLota) for representing BNL at the National Lab Research SLAM, 2025.
• 1st place prize at BNL's Research SLAM competition, 2024.
• sPHENIX Hero, for several contributions to the sPHENIX experiment, 2023.

• CEU23 Mentors Award, American Physical Society and the Physical Society of Japan, 2023.

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