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.
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.