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Maissam Barkeshli
Google Scholar ID: 7pMAOCMAAAAJ
Professor of Physics, University of Maryland. Visiting Research Scientist, Meta FAIR. Fellow, JQI
Theoretical Physics
Quantum Many Body Physics
Topological Quantum Matter
Deep Learning
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46
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Artificial Intelligence and the Structure of Mathematics
2026
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On the origin of neural scaling laws: from random graphs to natural language
2026
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Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers: Permuted Congruential Generators, Curricula, and Interpretability
2025
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Background
Theoretical physicist working on condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, quantum topology, and quantum information theory
Recently also working on the science of deep learning, studying fundamental properties of modern AI models
Principal Investigator in the Simons Collaboration on Physics of Learning and Neural Computation
Senior Investigator at the Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation
Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at UMD
Affiliate Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)
Currently on leave as a Visiting Research Scientist at Meta FAIR (Fundamental AI Research)
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46 total
Xiao-Liang Qi (祁晓亮)
Stanford University
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Guanyu Zhu
Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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