• Ph D, Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016

• Understanding Hot and Cold Nuclear matter using Effective Field Theories, US Department of Energy, (2024 - 2027)

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

• Vaidya, Varun, and Sen, Srimoyee. Viability of perturbative expansion for quantum field theories on neurons. Journal of Machine Learning Science and Technology, 2026. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ae6d7d)
• Vaidya, Varun, and Sen, Srimoyee. Chiral effects and Joule heating in hot and dense matter. Vol. 114, Iss. 4 Physical Review D, 2026. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/4hch-nm2m)
• Vaidya, Varun, Singh, Balbeer, Mehtar-Tani, Yacine , and Ringer, Felix. Open quantum system approach to inclusive jet production in heavy-ion collisions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2026. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2026)048)
• Vaidya, Varun, and Singh, Balbeer. Factorization for energy-energy correlator in heavy ion collision. e-Print: 2408.02753 , Accepted in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2025)071)
• Vaidya, Varun, Singh, Balbeer, Mehtar-Tani, Yacine , and Ringer, Felix. Factorization for jet production in heavy-ion collisions. Physics Letters B, 2025. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139827)
• Vaidya, Varun, and Stewart, Iain. Power Counting to Saturation. Physical Review D Letters, 2024. (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.L011504)
• Vaidya, Varun, Slatyer, Tracy, Rodd, Nicholas , and Baumgart, Matthew. The Quintuplet Annihilation Spectrum. arXiv:2309.11562, Submitted to Journal of High Energy Physics. (DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2024)158)
• Vaidya, Varun, and Asadi, Pouya. 1+1D Hadrons Minimize their Biparton Renyi Free Energy. Physical Review D. (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.014036)
• Vaidya, Varun, and Asadi, Pouya. Quantum Entanglement and the Thermal Hadron. Physical Review D. (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.054028)

• EPSCoR grant, U. S Department of Energy, 2024

• Vaidya, Varun, Theory of Jet quenching. Presented at the New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders,, Vienna. (August 2026)
• Vaidya, Varun, An EFT approach to dynamical Tidal Love Numbers of Neutron Stars. Presented at the Invited Seminar, Munich. (July 2026)
• Vaidya, Varun, An EFT approach to dynamical Tidal Love Numbers of Neutron Stars. Presented at the Frontiers of Quark Gluon Plasma, Santa Barbara. (April 2026)
• Vaidya, Varun, The theory of jet quenching. Presented at the Frontiers of Quark Gluon Plasma, Santa Barbara. (April 2026)
• Vaidya, Varun, An EFt approach to Dynamical Tidal response of compact stars. Presented at the Invited talk, Phoenix. (March 2026)
• Vaidya, Varun, EFT approach to Color decoherence in jet quenching. Presented at the INT workshop on Open Quantum systems, Seattle. (December 2025)
• Vaidya, Varun, Effective Field theory for jet quenching. Presented at the EIC physics, Seattle. (July 2025)
• Vaidya, Varun, Effective Field Theory for jet quenching. Presented at the New Opportunities for energy energy correlators, Wuhan China. (May 2025)
• Vaidya, Varun, Presented at the SCET 2025 (March 2025)
• Vaidya, Varun, Exploring the Universe with Effective Field Theories. Presented at the invited colloquium, Columbus ,Ohio. (February 2025)
• Vaidya, Varun, Effective field theory for jet propagation in Heavy Ion Collisions. Presented at the Asian Triangle Heavy Ion Collision, India. (January 2025)
• Vaidya, Varun, Power counting to jet quenching. Presented at the Heavy Ion physics in EIC era workshop, Seattle. (August 2024)
• Vaidya, Varun, Power counting to jet quenching.. (May 2024)
• Vaidya, Varun, Factorization for jet propagation.. Presented at the Jet propagation in dense media, Seattle. (October 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Factorization Violation and Saturation Physics. Presented at the Frontiers of Quantum Field Theory, Vienna. (August 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Confinement and quantum entanglement. Presented at the Quark Confinement Workshop, U Minnesota. (May 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Quantum entanglement and 1+1 D hadron structure. Presented at the SCET Workshop (March 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Jet propagation in Heavy Ion Coliisions. Presented at the TIFR Meson Seminar, Mumbai(online). (February 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Small x physics at the Electron Ion Collider. Presented at the Resummation, Evolution, Factorization 2022, Online. (November 2022)
• Vaidya, Varun, Power counting to saturation. Presented at the INT workshop on Hadron structure, Seattle. (September 2022)