As a member of the Atlas Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva Switzerland, Dr. Saleem played important role in top quark physics, Charged Higgs boson (Discovery of the Higgs boson is a breakthrough discovery of the century in 2012 by the ATLAS collaboration at LHC – CERN. The Higgs), b-quark tagging and Atlas pixel detector electronics and software development. Dr. Saleem co-authored the discovery of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS Collaboration, discovery which provided the experimental basis for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.

Dr. Saleem expertise at ATLAS at LHC include ATLAS Pixel Detector assembly, commissioning and Big Data analysis techniques in High Energy Physics using Machine learning. These data analysis techniques are critical for the challenging tasks involving Big Data (e.g., data analysis tasks from the Large Hadron Collider - LHC at CERN). The state-of-the-art machine learning techniques are used to search for rare signal events from the huge background events that arise from known physics processes at the LHC. These techniques are not only being used in the high energy physics experiments to discover new subatomic particles, but it is also used extensively in the growing Big Data industry and Artificial Intelligence methods.