Miles Waugh

Computational Physics Researcher and Machine Learning Engineer

Computational Physics & Scientific Machine Learning

I’m an undergraduate researcher in computational physics working on machine learning methods for physical systems. I focus on learning-based approaches to simulation and modeling in high-energy physics and quantum many-body systems. I also build interactive physics demos and create visualizations.

Miles Waugh

Publications & Work

Spectral path tracer

Toward the Thermodynamic Limit: Neural Operators for Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Mott Insulators (Anandkumar Group)

2025 · Scientific Machine Learning · Preprint

Developed a Fourier Neural Operator to model nonequilibrium dynamics in strongly correlated systems. Trained on small lattices, the model demonstrates zero-shot generalization to systems exceeding 1024×1024, producing physically consistent predictions far beyond the tractable regime of conventional solvers.

Transformer-based Jet Reconstruction for Dark Matter Signatures (ATLAS / CERN, Whiteson Group)

2024–2025 · High Energy Physics · Research

Developed transformer-based models for reconstructing jet kinematics in simulated collider data. Investigated missing momentum signatures associated with dark matter production using a full simulation pipeline (MadGraph, Pythia8, Delphes) on GPU-enabled HPC systems.

Let’s Build Something Interesting

I’m interested in graduate study at the intersection of physics and machine learning, with an emphasis on pushing beyond standard simulation limits toward methods that enable new regimes of scale, efficiency, and insight. I’m especially motivated by work that treats machine learning as a tool for scientific discovery and connects computation with clear, interpretable representations of complex systems, and I’m always open to research collaborations and ML-related internships.