Stepan Stepanyan Stepan Stepanyan joined Jefferson Lab in 2003 as a Hall B staff scientist. He is the Deputy Hall Leader for experimental Hall B and the Jefferson Lab professor of physics at Old Dominion University. In 2015 Stepan was elected a Fellow of the American Physics Society, recognized for pioneering research to access generalized parton distributions through deeply virtual exclusive processes and the 3-dimensional imaging of the nucleon’s quark structure, and for developing novel experimental methods and apparatus in medium energy hadron physics. Stepan is a co-spokesperson of several experiments studying the nucleon and nucleus partonic structure using Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, Time-like Compton Scattering, and J/Ψ photoproduction. In the last several years, he has been involved in Dark Matter search experiments. He is a co-spokesperson of the Heavy Photon Search experiment that searches for Dark Matter force carriers. Stepan coordinates the research activities of collaborators worldwide and mentors graduate and undergraduate students. He has authored more than 200 papers published in refereed journals, participated in the organization of international workshops and conferences, and presented Jefferson Lab physics in many invited talks. Current Responsibilities in Hall B: Deputy Hall B Leader. Provides scientific leadership, guidance, and coordination for the Hall B user community in developing and executing the scientific program. Leads the CLAS12 high luminosity upgrade efforts.