Arjun Mehrotra

Physics · Machine Learning

I'm a student from Mumbai working on physics, machine learning, and interpretability.

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News

2026 Think Essay Prize 2026: longlisted in the Royal Institute of Philosophy's essay competition, top 2.6% of 1,500+ entries worldwide.
Apr 2026 Beamline for Schools 2026: our team's ChDR beam-monitor proposal was shortlisted among the top 50 of 712 teams worldwide.
2026 IYPT 2026: represented India at ETH Zurich, where the team earned an honorable mention and I earned India's highest-ever report score.

Experience

2025–2026

Team India, IYPT

International Young Physicists' Tournament, ETH Zurich

One of five students selected to represent India after two national rounds. Conducted open-ended experimental and theoretical research on two problems in magnetism and fluid dynamics. Earned India's highest-ever report score.

Jun–Jul 2026

Research Intern

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University

Built a CNN on voltage-relaxation curves for lithium-ion battery health estimation (2.4% RMSE) from multi-frequency EIS data. Poster presented at ISU ME.

Jun–Jul 2026

Intern

Vibrational Spectroscopy Lab, IIT Bombay

Built a computational pipeline for time-resolved second-harmonic-generation laser diagnostics on ferroelectric thin films, with custom plugins driving the spectrometer, camera, and delay stage.

Jun–Aug 2025

ML Contributor

Smriti, open-source photo & video platform

Quantized EfficientNet models (ExecuTorch, PyTorch C++) to run on low-cost hardware in resource-limited settings; containerized with Docker for low-RAM deployment.