About Me

I am a second-year physics student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, studying the intersection of quantum information, numerical linear algebra, and machine learning. This website serves as a repository for my research experiences, course notes, and independent studies.

Research

I am currently working on

• quantum Monte Carlo simulations for tensor networks and contractions (with Edgar Solomonik)
• symbolic regression & deep learning techniques for theoretical neuroscience (with Matthew Singh)

Current

Recently, I have found interests in information geometry and the intersection of statistical physics and neural computation. I have been (slowly) reading through:

• An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry, a survey paper by Nielsen.
• Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation, a text by Hertz developing connections between statistical mechanics and Hopfield networks.
• Elements of Information Theory, a standard text in the field by Thomas and Cover.

Outside of academia, I've spent my time reading through Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, a high fantasy series that I could not recommend more.

You can find me online on LinkedIn and reach me at aniket4 [at] illinois [dot] edu.