Dr. Casey Durandet is currently a Physics professor in the Maricopa County College District in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her BS degree in Physics from University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1989 and her MS degree in 1991 and a Ph.D. degree in 1995 in High Energy Particle Physics from University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Matthew’s work focuses on fundamental research and tooling at the intersection of experimental high energy physics and data science. Prior to joining UW-Madison, Matthew did his Ph.D. and first postdoc in experimental high energy physics as part of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN and joined the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP), where he serves on the executive board. His primary research interests are in searching for new physics at the energy frontier of experimental particle physics and finding data science applications, including machine learning tools and methods, to improve research in the physical sciences.