
Sukhman Rai developed advanced data analysis and simulation features for the IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis repository, focusing on particle physics workflows. Over six months, Sukhman engineered multi-year scale factor management, robust histogram generation, and a modular pile-up scale factor framework using C++ and JSON. His work included refactoring core classes for year-specific data handling, implementing environment setup for reproducible builds, and enhancing lepton pairing logic for Higgs analyses. By improving configuration management and debugging processes, Sukhman enabled more accurate and maintainable CMS event analysis pipelines. The depth of his contributions reflects strong skills in C++ development, scientific computing, and data management.

In February 2026, IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis delivered a dedicated Pile Up Scale Factor Framework to improve CMS event analysis. The feature introduces new classes for reading and processing pile-up data, enabling more accurate scale factors used in particle physics analyses and strengthening the reliability of downstream analyses.
In February 2026, IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis delivered a dedicated Pile Up Scale Factor Framework to improve CMS event analysis. The feature introduces new classes for reading and processing pile-up data, enabling more accurate scale factors used in particle physics analyses and strengthening the reliability of downstream analyses.
December 2025 performance highlights: Delivered critical enhancements to IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis, focusing on robust histogram generation and invariant mass calculations. The work improves particle-type handling, ensures histograms are correctly created and filled from particle data, and adds invariant mass calculations for same-sign and opposite-sign pairs. These changes enhance analysis reliability, broaden analytical capabilities, and deliver tangible business value for CMS data analysis workflows.
December 2025 performance highlights: Delivered critical enhancements to IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis, focusing on robust histogram generation and invariant mass calculations. The work improves particle-type handling, ensures histograms are correctly created and filled from particle data, and adds invariant mass calculations for same-sign and opposite-sign pairs. These changes enhance analysis reliability, broaden analytical capabilities, and deliver tangible business value for CMS data analysis workflows.
Month: 2025-11 — IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis delivered key analytical and visualization enhancements to support Higgs analyses and new signal channels. Highlights include: 1) Lepton pairing enhancements and visualization for Higgs analyses with improved pairing logic, sorting, and invariant-mass visualizations across electron, muon, and tau combinations; related commits include edb42ec088d0448af558fb569b737cfc13353e4b, 42b775f4c373211357daa39c89f1dfc4bb3892f4, and 48f2be0279dae9fe0582b305bd6900c11a14ab29. 2) Added a Dark Photon BDT analysis channel to improve data collection for signal and background histograms, with commit aa43343b555e8f56181bdea3e0a1a4e5381ef27a. 3) Plotting and histogram configuration enhancements, including switching to a new histogram variable, refining analysis type handling, refactoring recoDecays handling, and improving visualization formatting; commits 87e9b74a7dba77054d05b4fd1ea2ad63a2fb8a37, b002acabe0cdfd7990e281f95136d81a003f7ff4 and 7eda45947e64d7a00761c7c29e9d237be8d53b52. While no explicit bug-fix release is logged this month, several enhancements address edge cases in lepton pairing, BDT output handling, and plotting consistency.
Month: 2025-11 — IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis delivered key analytical and visualization enhancements to support Higgs analyses and new signal channels. Highlights include: 1) Lepton pairing enhancements and visualization for Higgs analyses with improved pairing logic, sorting, and invariant-mass visualizations across electron, muon, and tau combinations; related commits include edb42ec088d0448af558fb569b737cfc13353e4b, 42b775f4c373211357daa39c89f1dfc4bb3892f4, and 48f2be0279dae9fe0582b305bd6900c11a14ab29. 2) Added a Dark Photon BDT analysis channel to improve data collection for signal and background histograms, with commit aa43343b555e8f56181bdea3e0a1a4e5381ef27a. 3) Plotting and histogram configuration enhancements, including switching to a new histogram variable, refining analysis type handling, refactoring recoDecays handling, and improving visualization formatting; commits 87e9b74a7dba77054d05b4fd1ea2ad63a2fb8a37, b002acabe0cdfd7990e281f95136d81a003f7ff4 and 7eda45947e64d7a00761c7c29e9d237be8d53b52. While no explicit bug-fix release is logged this month, several enhancements address edge cases in lepton pairing, BDT output handling, and plotting consistency.
Monthly work summary for 2025-10 focusing on IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis. Highlights include delivering cross-year scale factor management to enable robust multi-year analyses and reducing log noise for cleaner downstream processing. The work supports more accurate physics results and faster, more maintainable data processing pipelines.
Monthly work summary for 2025-10 focusing on IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis. Highlights include delivering cross-year scale factor management to enable robust multi-year analyses and reducing log noise for cleaner downstream processing. The work supports more accurate physics results and faster, more maintainable data processing pipelines.
September 2025 monthly summary for IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis: Delivered a Multi-Year Scale Factor Loading System to enable year-specific scale factor handling across multiple years and data sources with JSON-based configuration. Upgraded LeptonScaleFactor and related classes to correctly manage year-specific data and keys, improving flexibility and accuracy. Implemented the MultiYearScaleFactorReader to aggregate scale factor data across years and data sources, reducing manual data handling and improving analysis consistency.
September 2025 monthly summary for IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis: Delivered a Multi-Year Scale Factor Loading System to enable year-specific scale factor handling across multiple years and data sources with JSON-based configuration. Upgraded LeptonScaleFactor and related classes to correctly manage year-specific data and keys, improving flexibility and accuracy. Implemented the MultiYearScaleFactorReader to aggregate scale factor data across years and data sources, reducing manual data handling and improving analysis consistency.
In August 2025, IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis delivered a robust CMSSW toolchain configuration and environment setup, establishing reproducible builds and cross-tool compatibility. New configuration files define project settings, release information, and per-tool configurations for libraries such as abseil-cpp, alpaka, and boost to ensure reliable development and integration across CMSSW tooling. A compile-issues fix was implemented to stabilize the environment provisioning process. These changes reduce setup time, improve CI reliability, and accelerate onboarding for new contributors.
In August 2025, IMSA-CMS/CMSAnalysis delivered a robust CMSSW toolchain configuration and environment setup, establishing reproducible builds and cross-tool compatibility. New configuration files define project settings, release information, and per-tool configurations for libraries such as abseil-cpp, alpaka, and boost to ensure reliable development and integration across CMSSW tooling. A compile-issues fix was implemented to stabilize the environment provisioning process. These changes reduce setup time, improve CI reliability, and accelerate onboarding for new contributors.
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