Prof. Adams’ current research is focused on the pursuit of signs of new physics at the CMS experiment at CERN. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. Using data from its early operations (2010-2012), CMS (along with its competitor ATLAS) discovered a new particle that has since been identified as the long sought-after Higgs boson. Prof. Adams is currently seeking evidence for new, heavy, charged particles in the CMS data. This work (in collaboration with a small group of researchers from around the world) has resulted in several publications and numerous conference presentations. Prof. Adams’ group pioneered searches for highly charged particles and searches using machine learning techniques. He is also searching for new physics in events with three photons predicted by a model created by Prof. Takemichi Okui (FSU). Prof. Adams has worked on the operations and understanding of the performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter for more than a decade.