Vedant Misra

vedant dot misra at gmail dot com

About Me

I am a scientist, a writer, and an aspiring entrepreneur. I believe strongly in the use of science and technology to solve the world's problems.

I studied physics, mathematics, and economics at Columbia as a Rabi Scholar. At present I study complex systems at the New England Complex Systems Institute, an independent think tank in Cambridge, MA. Broadly, I am interested in understanding emergence in a variety of social and natural systems, and in the application of mathematics to various disciplines, including complexity economics, systems biology, theoretical physics, quantitative finance, international relations, political science, and jurisprudence. I am also interested in the application of natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to ontology learning in scientific literature.

Rational orbits around charged black holes - V. Misra, J. Levin. Physical Review D, September 2010. In press.
Vulnerability analysis of complex systems - V. Misra, D. Harmon, Y. Bar-Yam. S. Dolev, et. al (eds). SSS 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6366, 560-572. Springer, Heidelberg (2010). In press.
Voyagers - Columbia Daily Spectator, April 2009
Before you go - Columbia Daily Spectator, April 2009
The genomic atheneum - Columbia Daily Spectator, March 2009
Inching toward alchemy - Columbia Daily Spectator, March 2009
Bachelor of medicine - Columbia Daily Spectator, February 2009
How I learned to stop worrying and love the LHC - Columbia Daily Spectator, February 2009
More than lip service - Columbia Daily Spectator, February 2009
Giving a soft spoken faith a louder voice - Columbia Daily Spectator, January 2008
Presidential foreign policy guide - Columbia Daily Spectator, November 2007