Payel Mukhopadhyay

Assistant Research Professor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge

Joined

May 2024

Names

Payel Mukhopadhyay (Preferred)

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@cam.ac.uk (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Research Professor

DAMTP, University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

2025 – Present

Postdoc

Physics, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2022 – 2025

PhD student

Physics, Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2017 – 2022

Undergrad student

Physics, IISER Kolkata (iiserkol.ac.in)

2012 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Miles Cranmer

2024 – Present

Coauthor

Michael McCabe

2024 – Present

Coauthor

Ruben Ohana

2024 – Present

Expertise

Foundation models

Present

Scientific deep learning

Present

Publications

On the Value of Tokeniser Pretraining in Physics Foundation Models
Hadi Sotoudeh, Payel Mukhopadhyay, Ruben Ohana, Michael McCabe, Neil D Lawrence, Shirley Ho, Miles Cranmer
- AI&PDE Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Probabilistic Retrofitting of Learned Simulators
Cristiana Diaconu, Miles Cranmer, Richard E. Turner, Tanya Marwah, Payel Mukhopadhyay
- AI&PDE Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Overtone: Cyclic Patch Modulation for Clean, Efficient, and Flexible Physics Emulators
Payel Mukhopadhyay, Michael McCabe, Ruben Ohana, Miles Cranmer
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Physics Steering: Causal Control of Cross-Domain Concepts in a Physics Foundation Model
Rio Alexa Fear, Payel Mukhopadhyay, Michael McCabe, Alberto Bietti, Miles Cranmer
- Mech Interp Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) Poster
- Readers: Everyone
AION-1: Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences
Liam Holden Parker, Francois Lanusse, Jeff Shen, Ollie Liu, Tom Hehir, Leopoldo Sarra, Lucas Thibaut Meyer, Micah Bowles, Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Helen Qu, Siavash Golkar, Alberto Bietti, Hatim Bourfoune, Pierre Cornette, Keiya Hirashima, Geraud Krawezik, Ruben Ohana, Nicholas Lourie, Michael McCabe, Rudy Morel et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS2025-AI4Science Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Predicting partially observable dynamical systems via diffusion models with a multiscale inference scheme
Rudy Morel, Francesco Pio Ramunno, Jeff Shen, Alberto Bietti, Kyunghyun Cho, Miles Cranmer, Siavash Golkar, OLEXANDR GUGNIN, Geraud Krawezik, Tanya Marwah, Michael McCabe, Lucas Thibaut Meyer, Payel Mukhopadhyay, Ruben Ohana, Liam Holden Parker, Helen Qu, François Rozet, K.D. Leka, Francois Lanusse, David Fouhey et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
AION-1: Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences
Liam Holden Parker, Francois Lanusse, Jeff Shen, Ollie Liu, Tom Hehir, Leopoldo Sarra, Lucas Thibaut Meyer, Micah Bowles, Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Helen Qu, Siavash Golkar, Alberto Bietti, Hatim Bourfoune, Pierre Cornette, Keiya Hirashima, Geraud Krawezik, Ruben Ohana, Nicholas Lourie, Michael McCabe, Rudy Morel et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Compute-Adaptive Surrogate Modeling of Partial Differential Equations
Payel Mukhopadhyay, Michael McCabe, Ruben Ohana, Miles Cranmer
- ICLR 2025 Workshop MLMP Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Well: a Large-Scale Collection of Diverse Physics Simulations for Machine Learning
Ruben Ohana, Michael McCabe, Lucas Thibaut Meyer, Rudy Morel, Fruzsina Julia Agocs, Miguel Beneitez, Marsha Berger, Blakesley Burkhart, Stuart B. Dalziel, Drummond Buschman Fielding, Daniel Fortunato, Jared A. Goldberg, Keiya Hirashima, Yan-Fei Jiang, Rich Kerswell, Suryanarayana Maddu, Jonah M. Miller, Payel Mukhopadhyay, Stefan S. Nixon, Jeff Shen et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- D3S3 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Well: a Large-Scale Collection of Diverse Physics Simulations for Machine Learning
Ruben Ohana, Michael McCabe, Lucas Thibaut Meyer, Rudy Morel, Fruzsina Julia Agocs, Miguel Beneitez, Marsha Berger, Blakesley Burkhart, Stuart B. Dalziel, Drummond Buschman Fielding, Daniel Fortunato, Jared A. Goldberg, Keiya Hirashima, Yan-Fei Jiang, Rich Kerswell, Suryanarayana Maddu, Jonah M. Miller, Payel Mukhopadhyay, Stefan S. Nixon, Jeff Shen et al. (6 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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