Rate My Professor Ia Iashvili

Professor Ia Iashvili is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Buffalo. She earned her BS in Physics from Tbilisi State University in 1990, PhD in Physics from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2000, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside from 2000 to 2005. Joining the University at Buffalo in 2005, she has made significant contributions to experimental high energy physics as a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider. Iashvili participated in planning and building the CMS detector and took part in experiments that led to the 2012 observation of a new boson at 125 GeV, consistent with the Higgs particle. She is one of two CMS scientists responsible for jet energy scale calibration, a critical process for identifying Higgs and other particles.

Her research centers on searches for new particles and interactions using CMS data, alongside precision measurements of Standard Model processes, including Higgs boson properties. She leads efforts in precise calibration of hadronic jets, signatures of quarks and gluons, and supervises student work on upgrades to the CMS Forward Pixel Detector for charged particle tracking and vertexing. Key publications include CMS Collaboration papers such as "Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC" (Phys. Lett. B 716, 30, 2012), "Search for narrow resonances decaying to dijets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV" (PRL 116, 071801, 2016), "Jet Energy Scale and Resolution in the 8 TeV pp data" (JINST 12, P02014, 2017), "Pileup mitigation at CMS in 13 TeV data" (JINST 15, P09018, 2020), and earlier works from DØ Collaboration like "Observation of ZZ production in ppbar collisions at √s =1.96 TeV" (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171803, 2008). In recognition of her sustained impact, she received the University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholars: Sustained Achievement Award. Her research has garnered over 80,000 citations, influencing advancements in particle physics.