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Anvita Bhagavathula

Hi, I’m Anvi! I’m a second-year EECS PhD student at MIT, where I’m advised by Priya Donti. My research focuses on alleviating the limitations/bottlenecks of traditional scientific computing methods (e.g., differential equation simulations, iterative solvers) using physics-informed machine learning. My work specifically seeks to address challenges in renewable energy, climate, and power systems applications.

Research

My current projects include (1) developing physics-informed machine learning models for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with applications to accelerating computational fluid dynamics simulations of wind farms (2) designing ML-based power flow solvers using graph learning techniques. Beyond these projects, I am also interested in exploring problems related to weather forecasting and carbon capture. Key themes that I explore through my research include:

  1. Incorporating physics and domain structure into ML models through soft and hard constraints, operator learning, and graph-based methods.
  2. Taking inspiration from numerical solvers (e.g., spectral and multigrid methods) to inform the design of these models.
  3. Developing models that are accessible even in compute-constrained and low-data regimes (e.g., via self-supervised training).

About Me

I completed my undergraduate degree at Brown University, where I majored in Physics and Applied Mathematics, followed by a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell Tech. As an undergrad/master’s student, I engaged in a broad range of research experiences involving scientific computing. At Brown, I studied superconductivity in 2D graphene systems using experimental methods and Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations in the Low-Dimensional Electronics Lab (advisors: Jia Li, Brenda Rubenstein). In addition, I developed physics-informed neural networks as part of the The Crunch Group (advisor: Somdatta Goswami). I also had the opportunity to intern at Microsoft Research (advisor: Ranveer Chandra) where I worked on creating datasets for food protein property prediction, and startups such as Aqemia (drug discovery) and Transcelestial (wireless laser communications).

Outside of work, I love singing, playing piano, composing music, and reading poetry. I’ve recently started exploring cooking and creating new recipes. I also enjoy film photography, and you can find some of my photos here!


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