Brief CV - Bill Ashmanskas

 Apr 2014 - present   Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Pennsylvania
                      staff scientist in Radiology / Physics & Instrumentation Group
 Nov 2008 - Mar 2014  Senior Research Investigator, UPenn Radiology
 Sep 2010 - Mar 2014  Lecturer in Physics, UPenn
 Nov 2006 - Jan 2008  Visiting Scientist, Cornell University SRF Lab
 Jul 2004 - Oct 2008  Scientist I, Fermilab (tenured scientific staff)
 Jan 2004 - Jul 2004  Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University
                      (on leave as Guest Scientist at Fermilab)
 Apr 2003 - Jan 2004  Arthur H. Compton Fellow, Argonne National Lab
 Jul 1998 - Apr 2003  Enrico Fermi Fellow (postdoc), U. Chicago
            May 1998  Ph.D., experimental particle physics, U.C. Berkeley
            May 1992  A.B., physics, Harvard

Honors

2005 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
2005 - DOE Early Career Award ($50k/year research support for up to five years)
2005 - Fermilab Employee Performance Recognition Award
2002 - Mentor Graphics PCB Technology Leadership Award (FADC)
2000 - Mentor Graphics PCB Technology Leadership Award (Hit Finder)
1993 - UCB physics Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor


Courses taught

Physics 9 (Physics for Architects II), U. Penn, Spring 2012 & Spring 2014
Physics 8 (Physics for Architects I), U. Penn, Fall 2011 & Fall 2013
Physics 414/521 (Advanced Laboratory), U. Penn, Spring 2011
Physics 364 (Laboratory Electronics), U. Penn, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2014

Selected publications

Waveform-Sampling Electronics for the LaPET Whole-Body Time-of-Flight PET Scanner:
accepted Jan 2014 by IEEE TNS (with Joel Karp et al.)
doi: 10.1109/TNS.2014.2303119

Waveform-Sampling Electronics/DAQ for TOF PET Scanner:
abstract, paper, and poster submitted to MIC 2011
(with Ben LeGeyt, Mitch Newcomer, Rick Van Berg, Rony Wiener, and Joel Karp)

Status of 9-cell ILC cavity processing/testing at Cornell:
poster and paper submitted to SRF 2007
(work done with Hasan Padamsee and Curtis Crawford).

FPGA-Based Instrumentation for the Fermilab Antiproton Source:
paper submitted to PAC 2005
(with Sten Hansen, Terry Kiper, Dave Peterson).

Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decay D0 to mu+ mu- in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV.
Phys Rev D68, 091101 (2003)
(with the CDF collaboration).

The CDF Silicon Vertex Trigger.
NIM A518, issues 1-2, pages 532-536
(for the CDF collaboration).

Bunch-by-Bunch Digital Dampers for the Fermilab Main Injector and Recycler.
PAC 2003 proceeding
(with Bill Foster et al).

Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3347 (2000)
(with the CDF collaboration).



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