Curriculum vitae
Vineeth Krishna Talasila · Publishing as Vineeth Krishna
Leinweber Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My interests include quantum gravity, holography, multipartite entanglement, supergravity, and string theory.
Academic appointments
University of Michigan
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Research on black hole phases, holography, and quantum information in gravity.
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Department of Theoretical Physics, Mumbai, India. Research on measures of multipartite entanglement and their holographic descriptions, with analytical and numerical calculations in Mathematica and Python.
California Institute of Technology
Studied coating Brownian noise and developed a digital phase-locked loop on an FPGA for the experimental setup.
Education
PhD in Theoretical Physics
- Advisor: Abhijit Gadde
- Thesis: Multi-partite entanglement in holography
Integrated BS–MS, Physics and Mathematics
- Master’s thesis advisor: Bindusar Sahoo
- Master’s thesis: Kaluza-Klein reductions and AdS/RF correspondence
Teaching
Teaching assistant at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research:
| Course | Instructor | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Quantum Field Theory II | Abhijit Gadde | Fall 2023 |
| Quantum Field Theory I | Suvrat Raju | Spring 2023 |
| Advanced Quantum Mechanics | Rishi Sharma | Fall 2020 |
Fellowships & distinctions
- Kavli–LIGO Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Caltech (2017).
- INSPIRE Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2014–2019).
- All India Rank 6, Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST), 2019.
- All India Rank 19, CSIR–UGC National Eligibility Test.
Methods & tools
Programming and scientific computing: Mathematica, Python (NumPy, SciPy), C++, MATLAB, SageMath, LaTeX, Linux, and Git.
Mathematical and numerical methods: Linear algebra, differential equations, information theory, convex optimization, semidefinite programming, stochastic processes, and spectral analysis.
Earlier research
Everyday Radio Telescope · IISER Thiruvananthapuram (2016). Built a radio telescope with fellow students and worked on signal acquisition and spectral analysis. Read the project paper.