I am a scientist working at the intersection of complex systems, statistical physics, design problems, and data-driven methods.
Starting in January 2025 I will be an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I will be hiring people to join my group, please see more information in Join. If you are interested in collaborating with me, please contact me directly.
Until December 2024, I am 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
aklishin[ifyouwant]hawaii[another]edu
News
2024/12: I was a guest on the program “Where the world is going” at Radio Liberty talking about AI, neural nets, robots, and the Turing test done on you (in Belarusian)
2024/10: I gave a seminar on my system identification and sparse sensing work at the Data-Driven Science and Engineering Seminar
2024/10: I am excited to announce that I am joining University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in January 2025. Always happy to talk about new collaborations! For prospective students, please read the Join section.
2024/07: new coauthored paper on sensor placement for digital twins published in Energies
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