About
I’m Praharsh Suryadevara, a physics PhD from New York University advised by Stefano Martiniani. I defended my thesis in December 2025 and am currently looking for research scientist / research engineer / quantitative researcher roles in tech or finance. Broadly, I’m interested in computational and scientific roles involving hard problems in collaborative environments.
Updates
- February 2026: Giving a talk at the Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN).
- December 2025: Defended my PhD thesis!
Research
My PhD focused on the energy landscapes of soft sphere packings.
I showed that commonly used numerical methods since the 1980s to identify basins of attraction in potential energy landscape studies introduce numerical artifacts that can give misleading results. See arxiv:2409.12113.
A significant portion of my work also involves estimating volumes of basins of attraction in high dimensions using Markov chain Monte Carlo.