Research Interests

Physics for AI

Physics Data for Understanding ML

Leveraging the unique properties of physics datasets (access to controllable data generation and known data symmetry and structure) to probe the internal mechanisms of deep neural networks.

CMS Higgs boson event display [1]
Physics for AI

Physics-Inspired Scaling Laws

Using an effective field theory to predict how neural network ensembles behave, deriving scaling laws for uncertainty quantification without the need to train an ensemble.

Scaling law predictions
AI for Physics

Automating Scientific Model Building

Developing ML methods with the goal of “theory inversion”. Parameter estimation with Uncertainty Quantification, Simulation Emulation, and Automating Theory Writing.

CNF for parameter estimation
AI for Physics

Cross-Domain Foundation Models

Building foundation models for scientific point clouds (irregular graphs!) that transfer knowledge across the domains of particle physics, cosmology, and molecular dynamics.

OmniMol force predictions

Select Papers

  1. Ibrahim Elsharkawy, et al.
    Machine Learning: Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, 2025
  2. Ibrahim Elsharkawy and Yonatan Kahn
    arXiv preprint, 2025
  3. Ibrahim Elsharkawy, et al.
    arXiv preprint, 2026
  4. Wahid Bhimji, et al.
    NeurIPS 2025, Dataset and Competition Track
  5. Vinicius Mikuni, et al.
    arXiv preprint, 2025

Select Talks & Posters

  • Invited Talk
    1st Place Competition Milestone (Ensembles and Uncertainty Quantification)
    The Challenge of Handling Uncertainties in Fundamental Science @ NeurIPS 2024
  • Invited Talk
    Contrastive Normalizing Flows for Uncertainty-Aware Parameter Estimation
    CERN 7th Inter-Experimental LHC Machine Learning Workshop, 2025
  • Poster
    FAIR Universe HiggsML Uncertainty Dataset and Competition
    NeurIPS 2025, Dataset and Competition Track
  • Poster
    Uncertainty Quantification from Scaling Laws in Deep Neural Networks
    Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024
  • Poster
    Pre-Training For Science: A study on Foundation Model Training Objectives
    Stanford Center of Decoding the Universe Forum, 2025

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