Homer Alfred Neal

He is Director of the UM-ATLAST Project, the Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of Physics, Interim President Emeritus, and Vice President Emeritus for Research at the University of Michigan. His research area is experimental high energy physics and he is currently conducting his research at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. His research group is part of the ATLAS experiement at CERN. He also participates in the DZERO collaboration that in 1995 announced the discovery of the top quark. Within the DZERO collaboration, he and his group had particular responsibility for designing, implementing, and analyzing data from the Intercryostat Detector. His technical research expertise includes the design of particle detectors, high speed electronics, image pattern recognition algorithms, event reconstruction and data analysis, and large scale database management.