Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and a professor at New York University at the

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and Affiliated Faculty member at /cds.nyu.edu/ NYU's Center for Data Science He is an experimental particle physicist working, primarily, on the

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, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Cranmer popularized a collaborative statistical modeling approach and developed statistical methodology, which was used extensively for the discovery of the

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at the LHC in July, 2012. Cranmer is active in the discussions of data preservation, open access, reproducibility, machine learning, and e-science in the context of particle physics. Cranmer performed a search for exotic Higgs decays in archived data from the

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ten years after the experiment finalized. He serves on the advisory board for /inspirehep.net INSPIRE the literature database for high energy physics, and is a member of the /dphep.org Data Preservation in High Energy Physicsstudy group as well as /daspos.crc.nd.edu Data and Software Preservation for Open Science Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, Cranmer has been a popular choice as a guest on science television programming. In July, 2011, Cranmer appeared in a special episode of

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's '' StarTalk Live'' alongside

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, and

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. In a special video created for ''Science Nation'', the online magazine of the

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, Cranmer was featured discussing the Higgs boson in November, 2012. Cranmer also discussed the discovery of the Higgs boson in a TedxTalk in February, 2013. Cranmer obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 under

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and his B.A. in mathematics and physics from

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. He was a Goldhaber Fellow at

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from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, he was awarded the

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from President

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via the

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and in 2009 he was awarded the

's Career Award. Cranmer is also a graduate of the

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. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021.

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* /physics.as.nyu.edu/object/kylecranmer.html Kyle Cranmer's website at NYU* /twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/RooStats RooStats* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cranmer, Kyle People from Little Rock, Arkansas American particle physicists Living people 21st-century American physicists American experimental physicists Rice University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni New York University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers