Employment
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Jul 2013 – Oct 2023
- Ten years experience teaching Physics theory and lab courses at undergraduate and graduate levels.
- Guided three students to completion of PhD in theoretical physics.
- Guided 10+ students to completion of MSc projects in theoretical physics.
- Introduced and taught courses on General Relativity and Quantum Computation at MSc level.
Visiting Associate
Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, Aug 2017 - Oct 2023
- Delivered research talks on my work to audience of astronomers and astrophysicists.
Research Highlights
- Work at the interface of many body physics, quantum information and quantum gravity
- Proposed description of different spacetime geometries as corresponding to different phases of underlying microscopic many body physics
- Co-authored primer on Loop Quantum Gravity for newcomers, published as a monograph by Springer Nature in 2017
- Explored thermodynamics of black holes in anti-deSitter space with PhD students and collaborators
Selected Publications
- T. K. Safir, C. L. A. Rizwan, and Deepak Vaid, "Ruppeiner geometry, criticality and interacting microstructures of black holes in dRGT massive gravity", Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, 2022
- Deepak Vaid and D. Suresh, "Coherent states and particle scattering in loop quantum gravity,", Eur. Phys. J. C, 2022
- Deepak Vaid, "Connecting Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory via Quantum Geometry,", XXIII DAE High Energy Physics Symposium, 2021