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Aishik Ghosh

Aishik Ghosh is a physicist who applies AI to particle physics, astrophysics and fundamental physics. In 2020, he defended a University of Paris-Saclay thesis on GAN-based ATLAS calorimeter simulation and off-shell Higgs measurements in four-lepton events. He coauthored studies of uncertainty-aware classifiers in 2021, GAN-based hadronization in 2022, and machine-learning likelihoods for neutron-star inference in 2023. Before Georgia Tech, he was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Irvine and an affiliate at Berkeley Lab; he shared the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as part of CERN's ATLAS experiment and became a principal investigator on a Spring 2026 AI4Science Center grant. As of October 2026, he is an assistant professor of physics at Georgia Tech, where his group develops AI methods for theoretical physics, particle physics and astrophysics.

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Timeline

  1. 2020

    A particle-physics thesis

    In November 2020, he defends his particle-physics PhD at the University of Paris-Saclay with a thesis on GAN-based ATLAS calorimeter simulation and off-shell Higgs measurements in four-lepton events.

  2. 2021

    Uncertainty-aware classifiers

    In 2021, he coauthors a study with Benjamin Nachman and Daniel Whiteson on classifiers that model systematic uncertainties; the authors report higher sensitivity on Higgs-to-tau data.

  3. 2022

    A GAN for Herwig

    In 2022, he coauthors a study with Xiangyang Ju, Benjamin Nachman and Andrzej Siodmok that replaces part of Herwig's cluster model with a GAN. The authors show that it reproduces the kinematic properties of cluster decays.

  4. 2023

    Machine learning for neutron stars

    In 2023, he coauthors a study that uses machine-learning-derived likelihoods to infer neutron-star mass and radius from stellar spectra. The study reports 11.8% narrower parameter residuals in its most realistic scenario.

  5. April 2024

    UC Irvine postdoc, Berkeley affiliate

    By April 2024, he is a researcher at UC Irvine and Berkeley Lab, developing ML methods for particle and astrophysics. Before joining Georgia Tech, he works as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Irvine and an affiliate at Berkeley National Laboratory.

  6. 2025

    An ATLAS Breakthrough Prize

    In 2025, he receives the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as part of CERN's ATLAS experiment.

  7. December 2025

    An AI4Science seed grant

    In December 2025, he and Vijay Ganesh are named principal investigators for a Spring 2026 AI4Science Center seed grant on combining verified AI and domain knowledge for theoretical physics.

  8. As of October 2026

    Assistant professor at Georgia Tech

    By December 2025, he is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Physics. As of October 2026, his group designs neuro-symbolic algorithms for theoretical physics, high-dimensional statistical inference for particle physics and astrophysics, and AI-powered simulations.

Career

  1. Since 2025Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssistant Professor
  2. University of California, IrvinePostdoctoral Scholar
  3. Office of ScienceAffiliate

Education

  1. 2020Université Paris-SaclayPhD

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Aishik Ghosh. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  4. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.

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  1. About - Prof. Aishik Ghosh’s Group profaishikghosh.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Aishik Ghosh “Simulation of the ATLAS Electromagnetic Calorimeter using Generative Adversarial Networks and Offshell Higgs Boson Coupling Measurements in the Four-Lepton Decay Channel at the LHC” (Pôle PHE) (November 13, 2020) · IJCLab Events Directory (Indico) indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Uncertainty-aware machine learning for high energy physics | Phys. Rev. D journals.aps.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Towards a Deep Learning Model for Hadronization arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Deducing Neutron Star Equation of State from Telescope Spectra with Machine-learning-derived Likelihoods arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Aishik Ghosh: Performing Statistics with Artificial Intelligence in Physics | Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet bidmap.berkeley.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. aghosh369 | School of Physics physics.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. AI4Science Center Awards Inaugural Seed Grants | School of Physics physics.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.