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Ashutosh Vijay Kotwal (born December 20, 1965) is an American particle physicist of Indian origin. He has been a professor at Duke University since 1999, and works in research related to W bosons and the Higgs boson.

Early life
Kotwal was born in Mumbai, India, and attended schools in Calcutta, Lucknow and Delhi. He then began studying at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983, with degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and in economics with finance major from Wharton School in 1988. He also has a PhD from Harvard University.

Career
Kotwal joined Duke University as a professor in 1999, and is also the Director of Particle Physics at the University. Additionally, Kotwal is in charge of a Higgs boson search team as part of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, with the aim of proving the existence of the particle. Kotwal was part of the CERN team that announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. He conducts experiments at the Large Hadron Collider as well as at Fermilab in Chicago.

Research
Kotwal works in measuring the mass of the W boson, which is connected to the Higgs boson, using the data from the CDF and D0 experiments at Fermilab. In 2012, he analysed 1 million W boson particle masses to an accuracy of 0.02%, and carried out the world's most precise measurements on two propeties of fundamental particles, which in turn allowed him to predict the mass of the Higgs boson prior to its discovery in 2012.

Awards
Kotwal became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008, and in 2013 received a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contributions in discovering the Higgs boson. Kotwal is the recipient of the Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the US Department of Energy, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. He has received the Leadership Award from Duke University.

External link
https://www.phy.duke.edu/content/ashutosh-v-kotwal