Bio

Amit Tiwari received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology from the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, in 2024. Amit was a Postdoctoral Associate Instructor in the Department of Physics at MIT (2025-2026) before joining Stanford as a Lecturer in the Physics department in August 2026. Amit likes spending his time interacting with students, sharing physics, and running a campaign to convert as many of them to physics as possible. In his free time, he enjoys reading popular science and philosophy.

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Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Amit is interested in questions surrounding the primordial universe and the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model, and has published papers on topics including supersymmetry, grand unified theories, dark matter, topological defects, and gravitational waves. He also thinks deeply about how to improve physics education, developing better teaching methods, designing new undergraduate-level physics problems, and exploring how AI tools can help both students and instructors.

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