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 transitioning towards computer science. To this end, I am currently working with Razvan Marinescu (Computer Science and Engineering) 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. In the future, I would also like to develop specific applications of machine learning to concrete scientific and environmental problems.

Contact info

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

Email: sashashi@ucsc.edu

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