Sioni Summers

This summer marked another fantastic round of the CERN summer student program, and the first CERN STEAM Academy as part of NextGeneration Triggers.

Data taking at the LHC recently ended, and we now begin a period of several years of upgrades to the detector and trigger system.

Last week I presented “AI at the edge: underground and in space” at the AI for Gravitational Waves Workshop.

Setting the scene Recently I was taking part in some debugging of an ML model deployment for the CMS Level 1 Trigger in Run 3.

I was happy to be invited to present an overview of AI projects with industry relevance at the CERN Openlab Technical Workshop 2026.

In my daily work on FPGAs for the CMS Level 1 Trigger we usually are not limited by I/O into the devices.

I was delighted to participate in the CERN for Climate Action Day event, organised by CIPEA, this October 2025.

I was delighted to be invited to speak at a side event of the UN Plastic Treaty INC-5.2 at the CERN IdeaSquare.

</a> I was very happy to teach for a day and a half on High Level Synthesis (HLS) at Milano Bicocca as part of a week long FPGA school.

We recently put out our first public result for the CMS NextGen Triggers “Practical Real Time AI” task on improved jet tagging.