About

I'm Ritam. Physicist by training, AI researcher and builder by practice. I did my PhD at IISER Pune, where I used statistical physics to study democratic elections — proving that the messy business of voting follows surprisingly clean universal laws. That work got published in Physical Review Letters and featured as a Nature Research Highlight.

After the PhD, I moved to building things. I'm currently the Research Lead at Conscious Engines, where we're building Felix — a proactive AI assistant. My work there sits at the boundary of research and engineering: architecture decisions, training pipelines, turning intuitions from papers into production systems.

I'm also building untitled.life — more soon. And I'm co-founding monomials with Nisarg and Vikhyat (from IISER Pune) — a platform to connect PhD-level researchers with teams that need deep technical talent.

Before this, I was at Upsurge Labs (Sowmay Jain's venture studio), where I contributed to Bhindi — an agentic AI platform with 300+ background agents across 70+ applications.

The common thread: I like taking rigorous thinking — the kind you learn from doing physics — and applying it to problems where it's not traditionally expected. Whether that's proving universality in elections or training language models to reason about math, the impulse is the same.

Outside work, I play badminton, take photographs, and read more than I should. Based in Bangalore.

Lost in life. Mostly what I do is ask dumb questions.