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Aditya Yadav Physics, Math & Social Impact
Quantum Photonics Waveguide Lattice and Celestial Orbits
Taroni Village, Panna District, MP, India • Regeneron ISEF 2026 Finalist • World Science Scholar

Aditya Yadav

Quantum Photonics & Elastodynamics Researcher • Asteroid Astrometrist • Rural Water-Safety Innovator

I grew up in Taroni, a village of a thousand people in Panna district, Madhya Pradesh, where power cuts arrive every evening and my mother holds a bucket of hand-pump water to the sun to check if it looks clean enough to drink. With a single laptop and free papers online, I built computational models for multi-photon quantum state routing, chaotic elastodynamic energy harvesters, near-Earth asteroid orbital determination, and low-cost rural water testing.

Explore Research & Papers Launch Interactive Simulators NASA Lunar South Pole Viewer ↗
0.705 vs 0.306
Adaptive TRSB 2-Photon Routing Fidelity (ISEF & IRIS Gold)
1 of ~50
World Science Scholars Selected Globally (WSF New York)
3,000+
Villagers Reached & 68+ Homes with Water Filters (Diana Award)
Rank 2 State
PM YASASVI National Scholar (Top 50 in India) & 3 Asteroids
Portrait of Aditya Yadav

Aditya Yadav

Student & Independent Researcher (Class of 2027)

IB Diploma Candidate (Math AA HL, Physics HL, Chemistry HL) at Jayshree Periwal International School • Class 10 (92.4% A1) at Lisieux Anand School, Panna.

Home Village: Taroni, Panna, MP
Research Focus: Quantum Photonics & Chaos
Leadership: Senior Chair (India), AIYGO
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Origins & Perspective

From a Cardboard Solar Cooker to Four-Site Photonic Chains

Three moments from Taroni village and Panna district explain how I pick problems, why I work with dry-lab simulations, and why every technical model has to reach real people.

01 • The Torch & The Dish Grade 5 to Aug 2023

Making Things Work During Village Power Cuts

In fifth grade, power cuts hit our village every evening. After reading my science textbook, I took old wires, a dry cell, an LED, and cardboard, and used charger pins as a switch to build a torch. My mother used that torch every night. Later I built a periscope from broken mirrors and carried a cardboard-and-foil solar cooker to my seventh-grade science fair.

At night on my father's phone, I looked up national science fair winners and saw IIT labs and components worth thousands of dollars, while my father Ramakant Yadav counted my school fees in folded notes. In August 2023, our whole street crowded around one television as Chandrayaan-3 touched down near the moon's south pole on half of Interstellar's budget. Prahlad Uncle shouted, "We did it!" That year I read the science fair notice to the end.

Source: Student Brag Sheet & Common App Essay
02 • The Hand Pump & The Draft 2024 to 2026

Holding a Bucket to the Sun in 45°C Heat

Every morning in my village starts with a hand pump and buckets. My mother Pramod Yadav fills each bucket and squints at the tea-colored water against the sun. I used the Beer-Lambert law to simulate optical absorption for arsenic, nitrate, and phosphate, and trained a Conditional GAN. When the model stalled for lack of real laboratory spectra, an email asking for help sat in my drafts for four days.

I clicked send and posted in the World Science Scholars Discord. Amairah from Delhi replied because her brother had fallen ill from tap water. We traded a spot on my Conrad Challenge team for 300 real spectrophotometer readings collected with her father, reaching 72% accuracy across three contaminants. With a $2,000 grant from our district MLA, we brought gravity water filters to 68+ households and ran workshops for 3,000+ villagers across three villages.

Source: PMRBP Water-Safety Deck & MLA Diana Award Endorsement
03 • The Dairy Shop & The Bench 2022 to Present

Two Hours at the Counter and Sunday Tutoring

Every day from 2023 to 2025, I ran my parents' dairy shop for two hours while they fed and tended the cattle. The cattle needed feeding on schedule whether or not I had a physics deadline, and keeping the counter open taught me how to plan long stretches of research around real responsibilities.

When I was rejected from UWC myself, I took everything I had learned and coached Mayak Singh, a student from a background like mine, through his UWC interview until he was admitted to UWC Mahindra. When I tutored ninth-grader Ritik after he failed physics, I held his red-inked exam paper up the way my mother holds her bucket to the sun, looking for the clean step. "We'll fix the rest next week?" he asked. I kept the pronoun.

Source: Brag Sheet (Fixed) & Aditya Yadav Resume
Scientific Investigations & Manuscripts

Research Portfolio & Preprints

Computational physics, quantum control, nonlinear elastodynamics, orbital astrometry, spectral graph theory, and green analytical chemistry. Click any investigation to inspect equations, abstracts, and BibTeX citations.

Full PDF manuscripts bundled in /papers/ inside the GitHub repository
Quantum Photonics • ISEF 2026 p = 8.33e-53

Adaptive Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking for Robust Multi-Photon Quantum State Routing

Mentored by Prof. Michael Dubson (CU Boulder) • IRIS National Fair 2026 Gold Award (1 of 20 in India)

Formulated a 4-site open Bose-Hubbard photonic chain (Hilbert dimension 81, decay κ = 0.02) with 6-segment piecewise-constant Peierls phases φ(t) optimized via CMA-ES. Boosted two-photon routing fidelity from 0.306 (static baseline) to 0.705 (103x gain in high-loss κ = 0.05 regime; transient peak 0.846 at t = 2.8).

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Elastodynamics • Oct 2026 R² = 0.958

Deterministic Wave Scarring in Non-Integrable Elastodynamic Cavities for Energy Harvesting

19-Page Manuscript & LaTeX Source • Broadband Piezoelectric Mechanics

Passively overcomes the Bode-Fano quality-factor bandwidth limit by shaping an aluminum plate into a desymmetrized Limaçon cavity. Induces chaotic ray dynamics, Wigner-Dyson spectral level repulsion (R² = 0.958), and a 1.37x strain localization ratio along an unstable diamond periodic orbit.

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Astrophysics • SSP & IB EE Asteroid 7889

Orbital Determination of Near-Earth Asteroid 7889 (1994 LX) & Temporal Spacing Sensitivity

Summer Science Program (MIT / Caltech / HMC) & IB Physics Extended Essay

Analyzed how temporal spacing between three consecutive telescope observations affects the six Keplerian orbital elements (a, e, i, Ω, ω, M) computed via Gauss's Method. Built custom Python astrometry, plate-solving, and photometry pipelines following 3 preliminary asteroid discoveries in IASC.

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Spectral Graph Theory • Math HL τ = 0.93

Markov Chains & Damping-Induced Convergence of PageRank on a 40-Node Indian Rivers Graph

IB Mathematics AA HL Investigation • Overleaf LaTeX Package

Proved the second-eigenvalue bound |λ_2| ≤ d and tested power iteration convergence (10^-8 threshold) on a 40-node directed network of Indian river Wikipedia articles (24, 96, and 1,407 iterations vs bounds of 27, 113, and 1,833). Evaluated personalized teleportation focused on the Ganga river node.

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Environmental AI • Conrad & Diana 0.74 Cosine Sim

Physics-Guided Conditional GAN & Beer-Lambert Modeling for Rural Water Contamination

Conrad Innovator Award (2025-26) & The Diana Award (2026)

Combined Beer-Lambert optical absorption simulations with 300 real-world spectrophotometer readings to train a Conditional GAN (0.74 cosine similarity, 72% accuracy across arsenic, nitrate, and phosphate). Validated on 14 Taroni village wells (classifying 12/14 held-out samples and identifying 6 sources above the 10 μg/L WHO arsenic limit).

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Green Chemistry • Chem HL 70.20% Inhib.

Antioxidant Efficacy on Lipid Peroxidation in Sunflower Oil via Green Micro-Titration

IB Chemistry HL Internal Assessment • Low-Resource Methodology

Replaced carcinogenic chloroform in AOAC 965.33 with a non-toxic 1:1 isopropanol-acetic acid solvent. Measured Peroxide Values after 120 hours at 55.0°C: Vitamin E reduced PV from 27.72 to 8.26 meq O2/kg (70.20% inhibition) vs 17.64% for polar Vitamin C, confirming Porter's Polar Paradox in bulk oil.

Chem IA Doc ↗
Interactive Empirical Data Explorer

Live Research Lab Simulators

Explore the exact experimental datasets from my Regeneron ISEF quantum photonics paper, PageRank spectral graph investigation, and rural water / green chemistry studies.

4-Site Bose-Hubbard CMA-ES Control

Select the random onsite disorder strength (σ) and radiative dissipation regime (κ, evolution time T) from Tables 2 & 3 of my IRIS/ISEF paper to compare Static TRSB against CMA-ES adaptive phase modulation φ(t).

Static TRSB Baseline
0.305
Adaptive CMA-ES
0.7048
Improvement Factor
2.31x gain
Seed Spread (SD)
±0.00304
Verified Distinctions (2022 to 2026)

Honors, Awards & Fellowships

Every recognition below traces back to an independent investigation, scholarship exam, or community campaign started from Panna district.

Showing 18 verified honors
International Finalist 2026 • Phoenix, AZ

Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)

Presented dry-lab quantum photonics research on adaptive TRSB multi-photon routing in person among 1,700+ finalists from 60+ countries.

National Grand / Gold Award 2026 • Top 20 in India

IRIS National Science Fair Gold Medal

Selected among the top 20-30 projects nationwide to represent Team India at Regeneron ISEF 2026 after rebounding from a 10th-grade rejection.

International Humanitarian Honor 2026 • London, UK

The Diana Award

Recognized for 1.5+ years of rural water-safety workshops reaching 3,000+ villagers across three villages in Panna district, endorsed by the Constituency MLA.

Global Cohort (~50 Worldwide) 2025-2026 • New York

World Science Scholar (World Science Festival)

One of ~51 students selected globally to study advanced physics and mathematics with Nobel Laureates and Prof. Brian Greene.

Full Scholarship Research Cohort 2025 • USA

Summer Science Program (SSP) in Astrophysics

Co-sponsored by MIT, Caltech, and Harvey Mudd College. Conducted 5-week astrometric and photometric orbital determination of Near-Earth Asteroid 7889.

Rank 2 State • Top 50 India 2022 • Govt. of India

PM YASASVI National Scholarship

Ranked 2nd in Madhya Pradesh and Top 50 nationally, funding full high-school tuition and opening the door to independent scientific research.

Polar Field Expedition 2026 • Canadian Arctic

Students on Ice (SOI) Arctic Youth Expedition

Selected for a two-week ship-based polar climate science expedition, joining an alumni network of 3,000+ researchers and educators across 52 countries.

1 of 31 Selected Nationwide 2025 • IISc Bengaluru

Research Science Initiative India (RSI-India)

Selected among 31 Indian high school students for intensive research training with faculty at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

Youth Parliament Speaker 2025 • New York

United Nations Science Summit Panelist

Spoke on the Youth Parliament panel regarding AI governance, science policy, and securing clean water and basic living conditions in rural communities.

Global Innovation Distinction 2025-2026

Conrad Challenge Innovator Award

Founded and led a cross-city team combining Beer-Lambert simulations with a 300-row water absorption dataset for low-cost contamination detection.

Gold Award 2025 • Royal Commonwealth Society

Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition Gold Award

Earned Gold distinction for creative and philosophical nonfiction writing communicating scientific and human stories beyond technical audiences.

Stage 2 Finalist (Asia) 2025 • Math & Physics

S.-T. Yau High School Science Award (Asia)

Advanced to Stage 2 in both Physics and Mathematics divisions with independent LaTeX research reports.

3 Asteroid Candidates 2024 • IASC / NASA Partner

International Astronomical Search Collaboration

Led a 5-member citizen science team analyzing Pan-STARRS sky survey blink images, identifying 3 preliminary main-belt asteroid candidates.

Global Rank 293 / 6,000+ 2025

International Research Olympiad (IRO) Semifinalist

Placed in the top tier globally (Rank 293 among 6,000+ entrants) in interdisciplinary scientific literature analysis and quantitative problem-solving.

Mathematics & Systems Fellow 2025

Euler Circle Scholar & Roote Fellow

Admitted to the Euler Circle advanced university-level mathematics seminar (with full tuition waiver granted by the founder) and selected as a 2025 Roote Fellow.

Top 20 of 600 Teams 2024 • IIIT Nagpur

Innovation Oasis National Finalist (KrishiBots)

Built KrishiBots, an AI and robotics prototype for precision agriculture, pitching directly to investors among the top 20 teams out of 600 nationwide.

Top 25 of 1,200 • Only High Schooler 2025

Smart AI Hackathon National Finalist

Developed an adaptive NLP/LSTM mental health support system achieving >90% response accuracy; sole high-school finalist among 1,200 college competitors.

100% Merit Scholarships 2024-2025

SBI Asha Scholar, NYAS Junior Academy & 100% PWNSAT/FIITJEE

Awarded the SBI Asha Scholarship, 100% merit scholarships in PWNSAT and FIITJEE Talent Reward Exams, and membership in the New York Academy of Sciences Junior Academy.

Service, Leadership & Intellectual Life

Community Impact & Personal Passions

Finding an opportunity alone in a small village is hard. My goal is to leave a clear trail for the next student in Panna and across rural India.

Leadership & Rural Outreach

Panna District Water-Safety Campaign & Gravity Filters

3,000+ Reached

Partnered with the Panna Constituency MLA health campaign to run workshops in the local dialect across three villages on arsenic, nitrate, and phosphate contamination. Secured a $2,000 grant to install gravity-based water filters in 68+ rural households.

Inspire Science Foundation & Rural STEM Mentorship

50+ Students

Founded a grassroots rural STEM initiative (2022 to present) teaching fractions, LCM, Python, robotics, and electronics to government-school students. Coached Mayak Singh into UWC Mahindra, guided Anushka Bhagat on independent research, and mentored SSP applicants. Authored the introductory guide Quantum Physics in a Nutshell for local schools.

Senior Chair for India • AI Youth Global Organization (AIYGO)

2026 to Present

Lead the national India chapter, connecting student members with researchers and organizations like Non-Trivial, and building open-access learning modules on Large Language Models and Transformers for under-resourced students. Also volunteer with CRY (Child Rights and You).

Passions, Books & Projects Beyond the Classroom

NASA Space Apps Challenge: Lunar South Pole 1,440-Tile Viewer

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Built for the 36-hour NASA Space Apps Challenge ("Embiggen Your Eyes!") with teammate Jessica. Processed a 300 MB high-resolution 643 nm visible-light lunar south pole image (East 60 South) into 1,440 zoomable tiles to inspect crater water-ice habitats without resolution loss.

Philosophy of Science, Existential Risk & Writing

Voice & Literature

Drawn to the foundations of quantum mechanics (sparked by two months reading Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe), existential risk, longevity biology, and observational nonfiction inspired by Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Arctic Polar Science, Curiosities & Daily Grounding

Taroni to the Arctic

From learning about Inuit communities on the Students on Ice Arctic Expedition to watching Arcane with SOI friends and helping my parents Ramakant and Pramod Yadav run our family dairy shop, I love connecting across worlds that rarely meet.

Get in Touch & Collaborate

Connect with Aditya Yadav

Open to undergraduate research collaborations in quantum photonics, nonlinear physics, orbital mechanics, and environmental AI.

Email adityaday2@gmail.com
Phone (India) +91 9301235909
LinkedIn Profile ↗ NASA Space Apps GitHub Pages ↗ Curriculum Vitae (Drive) ↗

Verified Primary Archive Links

Direct links to full manuscripts, internal assessments, and portfolio documentation in Google Drive:

© 2026 Aditya Yadav • Built for GitHub Pages deployment • Taroni, Panna, Madhya Pradesh, India