{"id":5333,"date":"2019-11-04T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=5333"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:25:24","slug":"kunal-kothekar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/kunal-kothekar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunal Kothekar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kunal Kothekar<\/strong><\/div>\n
DUNE trigger and data acquisition system<\/strong>
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I am a dreamer and sci-fi pop-culture buff. When I am not in the lab, you will find me reading comics in a bookstore or desperately searching for that book which went out of publication a decade ago. Despite pursuing a different career — as a software engineer — in my early twenties, I have always dreamed of becoming a physicist. The big machines in experimental particle physics fascinated me. So one fine day, I gathered all the courage and took the plunge. I got an opportunity to do research and earn a Ph.D. on the CMS experiment. DUNE is the next mega level experiment in particle physics. I find it amazing to be a part of this project from the very beginning; we design it, and we figure out how we can do it. The sense of adventure and thrill of building new things is just incredible. At the moment, I am a team member for UK activities on the data acquisition system for DUNE. My role is to develop a firmware to process the tremendous amount of data coming from the DUNE far detector and generating a trigger or a decision on storing it. It will be continuous data taking for a decade or more, with minimal downtime. To achieve that we will need a robust and efficient data acquisition system and we are working towards it.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Curious about the project? Learn more about DUNE, LBNF and PIP-II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kunal Kothekar DUNE trigger and data acquisition system University of Bristol, United Kingdom I am a dreamer and sci-fi pop-culture buff. When I am not in the lab, you will find me reading comics in a bookstore or desperately searching for that book which went out of publication a decade ago. Despite pursuing a different… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5333\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}