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Rishi Raj, PhD

theoretical physics → scientific computing

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I think about black holes for a living: the BPS kind, mostly, and what their spectra can tell us about Donaldson–Thomas invariants.

Defended my PhD at Sorbonne Université / LPTHE in June 2026, supervised by Boris Pioline. Since then I've been retooling toward scientific computing: finished the CERN STEAM Academy 2026, a 10-week program covering heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing, FPGA edge inference, and applied deep learning. The through-line is the same either way: build something rigorous, make it fast, check it against reality.


◆ currently

  • Benchmarking neural discriminators (transformers, PFNs, XGBoost) for an LHC smuon search, with LPTHE/LPNHE
  • Looking for what's next in accelerated scientific computing / ML for physics

◆ papers


◆ projects

matrix-models-cpp
C++ · HPC
Simulating the bosonic BFSS matrix model: chaos, holography, and random-matrix thermalization, at the scale my master's thesis needed.

r-distro
Python · systems
Rebuilding the Debian ARM64 base system from source against a pinned snapshot, measuring where self-hosting closes.

xilinx-counter
VHDL · FPGA
A clock-to-LEDs counter on the Arty A7, synchronous logic and a Vivado Tcl/Make flow, built during CERN STEAM Academy.

OpenMP_Scaling_Benchmark
C++20 · HPC
A strong-scaling benchmark for OpenMP: how far parallelism actually gets you before it doesn't.


◆ stack

C++17/20/23 Python PyTorch CUDA Julia Mathematica SageMath · MPI, PBS, ROOT, Boost, GSL · CMake, Docker, GitHub Actions


dog owner · occasional traveler · still not over how much of physics turns out to be combinatorics

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