Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
I'm a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where I work on Claude's scientific capabilities. I'm also an Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences and Physics at Boston University. I'm currently based in San Francisco. Here's my CV.
Research Interests
My research explores how AI and science can advance each other: using AI to tackle problems in the physical sciences, and using scientific domains to understand the contours of AI capabilities.
I'm interested in how increasingly capable AI systems can participate in the scientific process, improving "traditional" tasks such as simulation, modeling, and inference, while also enabling qualitatively new modes of scientific investigation. This includes using AI to generate and test models, developing scalable inference techniques, and probing the limits of automated scientific reasoning. I view physics—which has been the focus of much of my work—as a particularly useful domain for this, offering a well-defined sandbox spanning theory, computation, and experiment for developing and testing methods with broader applicability across the natural sciences.
I'm also interested in meta-scientific questions about how technological progress shapes what research is possible, how increasingly powerful AI capabilities are reshaping scientific practice, and the evolving relationship between academic and industry research.
Background
Previously, I was an IAIFI Fellow at the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), affiliated with MIT and Harvard. Prior to that I was a postdoc at NYU's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University in 2018, working under the supervision of Mariangela Lisanti with my dissertation focusing on the phenomenology of and astrophysical searches for dark matter.
Along the way, I've been fortunate to have worked on experimental particle physics as a Summer Student at CERN and early on in grad school. I completed my undergraduate studies at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge in the UK where I read the Natural Sciences (Parts I and II) and Mathematics (Part III) Triposes. I grew up in Moscow, Russia.
Miscellaneous
I enjoy road cycling and hanging out with my cat, Toph.
Contact
I'm best reached via email.