Vikas Singhal

Experimental High Energy Physics Division,

Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre,

1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700064, India.

Personal webpage: https://grid.tier2-kol.res.in/

vikas@vecc.gov.in

033 2318 2424

Scientific Officer (G)

• Heterogeneous Computing
• Parallel Computing
• Software Framework
• Data Analysis
• Data Centre Management

1: “Development and implementation of a time-based signal generation scheme for the Muon Chamber simulation of the CBM experiment at FAIR”, Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 16, August 2021, P08043. DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/p08043

2: “Investigation of heterogeneous computing platforms for real-time data analysis in the CBM experiment”, Computer Physics Communications Elsevier, Volume 253, August 2020, 107190. DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107190

3: “Kolkata Grid Tier-2 Centre: Installation and Administration”, Data Driven E-Science: Use Cases and Successful Applications of Distributed Computing Infrastructures} Book, ISGC 2010, P141-152. ISBN: 978-1-4419-8013-7

4: “Commissioning and testing of pre-series triple GEM prototypes for CBM-MuCh in the mCBM experiment at SIS18 facility of GSI”, Journal of Instrumentation Volume16, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1748−0221/16/09/P09002.

5: “Testing of triple GEM prototypes for the CBM Muon Chamber system in the mCBM experiment at the SIS18 facility of GSI”, JINST 15, C10020 (2020). DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/C10020.

1. Organized “Scientific Computing Workshop for High Energy Physics and Tomography” during December 2024 at VECC, Kolkata.

2. The CBM Best Thesis Award for the year 2022 and 2023 for the PhD Thesis “Development and implementation of first level event selection process on heterogeneous systems for high energy heavy ion collision experiments", under aegis of the HBNI, India and the first Indian to receive the CBM best thesis award until 2023.

3. Organized “Meeting on Physics of ALICE, CBM and STAR (MPACS) during January 2024 at VECC, Kolkata.

4. Awarded with “DAE Group Achievement Award” for the Year 2020 by for “Installation, commissioning and data taking with GEM chambers at the mini CBM experiment at FAIR Germany.

5. Became Deputy Project Coordinator, WLCG India Grid Apex Project in 2019.

6. “Grid Computing Facility” listed in The Top Supercomputers-India list published by C-DAC, India during January 2018, July 2018 and January 2019 for 48-node cluster of 51 TFlop peak performance.

7. Became an external expert for procurement of computing infrastructures for the DBT Funded Project at the ISI Kolkata in the year 2017. Also designed an intelligent data centre for the same.

8. Became an external expert for building data centre and networking for NIBMG Kalyani in the year 2016.

9. Selected for “Thematic CERN School of Computing 2015” during 18-23 May 2015 at Split Croatia.

10. Awarded with “DAE Group Achievement Award” for the Year 2014 for Photon Multiplicity Detector (PMD) in the ALICE experiment at CERN and development of Gas Based Detectors for the fission studies”.

11. Organized “FAIR Computing: Accelerated Computing via GPU” workshop during November 2013 at Bose Institute Kolkata.

12. Defended MTech Thesis under aegis of CSE department of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India in the Year 2012.

13. Awarded with “DAE Young Engineer Award” for Year 2011 by Dr. R. K. Sinha, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Mr. S. Basu, Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

14. Design, installation and commissioned a green and efficient cooling solution for the Grid Computing facility, VECC which reduced cooling power consumption of the facility by half.

15. Consistently for the last 20 years maintaining high level of operational efficiency with reliability and availability, figure better than 90% for Kolkata Tier-2 @ ALICE.

16. In the year 2009, became Registration Authority under Indian Grid Certification Authority.

17. Awarded with “DAE Group Achievement Award” for the Year 2007 for “Photon Multiplicity Detector”.