Mike Hildreth

Dean of the Graduate School, Vice President and Associate Provost at University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana, United States

About

Mike Hildreth is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Vice President and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame. He was most recently the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Science, where he oversaw and sustained research activities, worked to establish interdisciplinary and inter-college collaborations, and supported graduate programs. He has overseen more than $2.0B in grant submissions, several construction projects, including planning for a new research building, the creation of two new graduate programs, and many strategic initiatives. He served as the Interim Dean of the College of Science in 2021. For more than two decades, he has led particle physics projects focusing on technical upgrades and software infrastructure. He currently serves as the co-coordinator of software and computing R&D for the US operations program of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Hildreth is widely recognized for contributions to particle physics, its software infrastructure, and the technology and policies of open data, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is very active in service to his profession, including previous membership on the national High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), and the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyber Infrastructure (ACCI). He has co-authored over 1700 publications, and has received numerous awards for his teaching and research, including a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator and Cottrell Scholar awards.

Experience

  • University of Notre Dame (26 yrs 6 mos)
    • Dean of the Graduate School, Vice President and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies
      Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

    • Professor
      2000 - Present · 26 yrs 6 mos

      Experimental High Energy Physics. Projects: the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, Accelerator instrumentation at KEK, Data and Software Preservation.

    • Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
      Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • CERN (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Staff Physicist
      1997 - 2000 · 3 yrs

      LEP Energy calibration, Electroweak measurements

    • CERN Fellow
      1995 - 1997 · 2 yrs

      LEP Energy calibration, Electroweak measurements