I am a physicist working on complex systems, design problems, and human learning.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems and Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington, working with Profs. Krithika Manohar and J. Nathan Kutz. Previously I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Complex Systems Lab at University of Pennsylvania, working with Prof. Dani S. Bassett. I got my Ph.D. in Physics in 2020 from University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Greg van Anders. En route, I also got M.Sc. in Physics in 2017 and Certificate in Complex Systems in 2019 from University of Michigan. I started my undergraduate studies at Belarusian State University and transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I got my B.Sc. in Physics in 2015.
Email: aklishin[youdecide]uw[something]edu
News
2024/03: new preprint on statistical mechanics of system identification
2023/09: new coauthored preprint on human learning of hierarchical networks
2023/08: new coauthored preprint on distributed system design
2023/07: new preprint on data-induced interactions of sparse sensors
2023/06: new coauthored software package for tensor network computations
2023/01: translated the Sexual Configurations Theory zine into Belarusian
2022/10: started as a postdoc at UW
2022/07: new preprint on how humans learn networks in finite time and with mental errors
2022/02: new preprint on statistical mechanics of network learning
2021/12: new coauthored preprint on gender inequality in citations across physics
2021/11: new coauthored preprint on optimizing networks for human learnability
2021/10: launched the Belarusian Interdisciplinary Seminar and gave the inaugural lecture. Schedule and updates here (in Belarusian and Russian languages)
2021/07: translated the Complexity Explained booklet into Belarusian
2021/04: my Ph.D. thesis won the 2021 Kurt M. Terwillinger Memorial Thesis Prize from U Michigan Physics
2021/03: new preprint on topological design of self-assembly
2021/02: third paper on Systems Physics to appear in the recently launched Journal of Physics: Complexity
2020/09: started as a postdoc at UPenn
2020/06: new paper on entropic order published in Soft Matter