Suhas Mahesh

suhas.msh [at] gmail.com¹
suhas.mahesh [at] utoronto.ca, physics.ox.ac.uk

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I’m a Scientist at Eric Schmidt’s Schmidt Sciences, where I lead programs on AI for Science within the AI & Advanced Computing Institute. Current areas of interest include AI-assisted materials modeling and next-generation compute hardware.

Previously I was a Schmidt Science Fellow at the University of Toronto and the Acceleration Consortium, building self-driving labs for photovoltaics, semiconductors, and catalysis. I hold a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from Oxford, where I was a Rhodes Scholar. I remain a Faculty Affiliate Researcher at the Vector Institute and a visiting researcher at Oxford.

Some favourite past work: the first triple-junction solar cell deposited fully from inks, detailed balance theory settling a contested semiconductor phase segregation problem, and the most influential (to date) assessment of where photovoltaics is and is not going.

I moonlight as an expert of classical Sanskrit and Prakrit. How to Love in Sanskrit (HarperCollins 2024)³, shortlisted for the 2025 ALTA National Translation Award. Nilakantha’s Victory is under contract with Harvard’s Murty Classical Library. I’m a co-creator of ambuda.org

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