Sangeet. S

I apologise if you have not figured out my name already but I am not going to spell it out for you again. What I can tell you is that I am a physics and mathematics educator at Rishi Valley School, India. I am also a computational physicist with a Master of Science in Physics from the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Cologne and a Bachelor of Science (Research) in Physics from Shiv Nadar University.

I know, I know, now you want the tldr version of my research interests because you are too lazy to check out the other tabs. Sigh. Like many of you, I have been fooled by this buzzword called quantum, in particular by quantum computing and its foundations. My most recent work, i.e, my master thesis focuses on quantum and quantum-inspired neural networks on which I worked as a part of the Quantum Information Group alongside Prof. Dr. David Gross. Along the way I have also meddled in projects involving tensor network methods such as matrix product states, operators and density matrix renormalization groups. I also have extensive experience with MCMC (to the Hindi speakers who are giggling, I suggest you get on with googling) methods and statistical inference. I also did some work on quantum gravity during my bachelors which led me to a ton of rigorous mathematical machinery related to non-commutative geometries and representation theory. When I am not procrastinting like I am with this website, I contribute to open-source code for associated quantum computing libraries in Python, C++ and Julia while ruminating the early stages of developing my own open source platform on a programming language I have come to admire off late. Wondering what any of this happens to do with teaching at a high school?

You will not get much of an answer here but you will find an answer or therabouts in this post. Anyways, I thoroughly enjoy teaching and have derived a lot of enjoyment from tutoring students ranging from the high school to graduate levels. Partly, my digression into physics education is because of the higher gains I have had from it relative to research. A core aim for me in this journey is to develop a balanced resource for high school physics students and educators. Perhaps there is hope for me in physics education research?