About me
Hello! I’m Sachin Vaidya, a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Prof. Marin Soljačić. I am also a junior investigator at the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI). I earned my PhD in Physics from Penn State in 2023, where I was part of Prof. Mikael C. Rechtsman’s research group.
My research spans a wide array of topics, from nanophotonics and topological matter to interpretable AI for science, and robotics. I enjoy collaborating with scientists from diverse fields, bringing together theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to tackle complex problems in physics and engineering. You can find my latest publications below and read more about my research here.
Recent Publications
KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Sachin Vaidya, Fabian Ruehle, James Halverson, Marin Soljačić, Thomas Y. Hou, Max Tegmark
The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations - ICLR (2025) (accepted)
Scientific American, Quanta Magazine, MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum
Prevalence of two-dimensional photonic topology
Ali Ghorashi, Sachin Vaidya, Mikael Rechtsman, Wladimir Benalcazar, Marin Soljačić and Thomas Christensen
Physical Review Letters (2024)
Weyl points on non-orientable manifolds
André Grossi e Fonseca*, Sachin Vaidya*, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Taylor L. Hughes and Marin Soljačić
Physical Review Letters (2024)
Response to polarization and weak topology in Chern insulators
Sachin Vaidya, Mikael C. Rechtsman and Wladimir A. Benalcazar
Physical Review Letters (2024)