Venkat Kapil
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at UCL
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVenkat Kapil is an Assistant Professor and computational materials scientist with 11 years of experience developing bottom-up simulation methods that deliver quantum-mechanical accuracy for bulk and nanoconfined systems. Trained at IIT Kanpur and EPFL and forged during postdoctoral work at Cambridge, he integrates path-integral quantum statistics, correlated electronic-structure methods, and machine-learning potentials to make predictive, computationally affordable tools for crystal structure prediction, quantum vibrational spectra, and phase diagrams. He has been a core developer of the open i-PI framework, translating advanced algorithms into software used worldwide to capture nuclear quantum effects in light-atom systems. Based in London, Venkat combines deep theoretical rigor with practical code development, and his work uniquely quantifies nanoscale behaviors that experiments cannot yet resolve.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
lammps10
simulation10
message-passing10
equation9
machine-learning8
stochastic4
jekyll-theme2
pythonic2
jekyll2
python2
deep-learning1
responsive1
neural-network1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
venkatkapil24/i-pi
May 2024 - Mar 2025
i-PI: a universal force engine
Contributions:64 pushes, 8 branches in 9 months
lab-cosmo/pimd-tutorial
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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