Michael Williams is an experimental particle physicist, faculty member at MIT, and inaugural Deputy Director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).
[1] Initially unsure of what he wanted to study or pursue as a career,[2] Williams double-majored in physics and mathematics summa cum laude at Saint Vincent College in 2001 before earning his M.S.
[3][4] He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London from 2008 until his appointment as a professor in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012.
"[1] Williams leads the MIT group working on the LHCb experiment,[9][10][11][12][13] a detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) named for its focus on the bottom quark.
[14][15][16] In connection with his work on IAIFI, Williams and colleague Jesse Thaler also created and co-chair a new degree program at MIT, an interdisciplinary PhD in physics, statistics, and data science.