Gavin S. Davies

I’m starting this blog with a short overview of my current setup, partly as an intro for new visitors and partly to have something to point back to as things change.

Experiments

I split my research time across three long-baseline and hadron-production experiments:

  • NOvA, where I serve as Computing Coordinator, and where I’ve previously been an analysis convener and software framework manager.
  • DUNE, the flagship next-generation effort to pin down the neutrino mass ordering and search for CP violation in the lepton sector. I’m the Mississippi Principal Investigator, and since January 2026 I’ve served as DUNE’s Global Software Technical Lead. Since May 2026 I also co-lead the collaboration’s Phlex Adoption Working Group.
  • EMPHATIC, where I’m the Software and Analysis Coordinator, measuring the hadron-production cross sections that feed into systematic uncertainties for both NOvA and DUNE.

Group and computing

At the University of Mississippi I lead the UM Neutrino group, supervising graduate and undergraduate researchers across these experiments. I’m also the Principal Investigator on a DOE EPSCoR award establishing a scientific computing hub at UM, and I coordinate the summer training programme for the Mississippi EPSCoR Scientific Hub (MESH).

What’s next

I plan to write about the software and computing side of this work in more detail: what “software lead” actually means day to day, how a collaboration the size of DUNE coordinates its computing, and what running a university computing hub involves. More soon.