About me

My name is Sanjit Shashi. I am a postdoctoral scholar primarily housed in the University of California's Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) working with Edgar Shaghoulian.

I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 with a bachelor's in math and completed my PhD in physics in 2023 at the University of Texas at Austin.

I am also researching generative machine learning. To this end, I am currently working with Razvan Marinescu (Computer Science) and Daniele Venturi (Applied Mathematics).

Research

For a complete list of my papers, please refer to my page on the inSPIRE database or to my CV.

Most of my physics work concerns holographic duality or "holography," a mathematical equivalence between theories of quantum gravity and theories describing quantum phenomena with no gravity. Duality is nothing new to physics, with perhaps the most well-known example being the equivalent treatments of light as either a particle or a wave. Gravity is no different, and (in my view) holographic duality is no less profound.

As for my work in computer science, I am currently working on applying tools from physics to develop novel methods and approaches to machine learning research. Right now, we are developing models that leverage the structure of holographic space and, in particular, AdS.

Contact info

Office: Interdisciplinary Sciences Building Room 327, 550 Red Hill Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Email: sashashi@ucsc.edu

GitHub: SanjShashi

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