Hiya ! I am a graduate student in MIT CSE working with Tess Smidt and Saman Amarasinghe. I am hoping to bring a systems perspective to machine learning-based molecular modeling.

I did my undegrad in Engineering Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where I was involved in numerical relativity, scientific computing and HPC middlewares. In addition to research, I also worked as an Undegraduate Research Ambassador for the Office of Undergraduate Research.

CV: here (Updated 04/2025)

Email: m[lastname]at[institution].edu

Research Projects

Undegraduate and Masters

Optimizing Tensor Products in E(3) Equivariant Networks

• Training a Foundational Model for Materials on a Budget
  Teddy Koker, Mit Kotak, Tess Smidt
  AI4Mat @ NeurPS 2025

• Simplifying Equivariant GPU Kernels through Tile-based Programming
  SM Thesis 2025
  PyTorch Conference 2025

• The Price of Freedom: Exploring Tradeoffs in Equivariant Tensor Product Operations
  YuQing Xie, Ameya Daigavane, Mit Kotak, Tess Smidt
  ICML 2025

• High-performance training and inference for deep equivariant interatomic potentials
  Chuin Wei Tan, Marc L. Descoteaux, Mit Kotak, Gabriel de Miranda Nascimento, Seán R. Kavanagh, Laura Zichi, Menghang Wang, Aadit Saluja, Yizhong R. Hu, Tess Smidt, Anders Johansson, William C. Witt, Boris Kozinsky, Albert Musaelian
  Under submission

Efficiently executing data flow graphs on GPUs

Prof. Andreas Klöckner at Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design

• Senior Thesis: Efficiently executing DG-FEM workloads on GPUs via CUDAGraphs

• Task Graph Parallelism on GPUs via CUDAGraphs (Talk)
  Mit Kotak, Kaushik Kulkarni, Andreas Klöckner
  CEESD AST Review 2022

• Efficiently executing Numpy on GPUs via the CUDAGraph API (Poster)
  Mit Kotak, Kaushik Kulkarni, Andreas Klöckner
  UIUC URS 2022

3D Visualizations of Astrophysics Simulations

Prof. Stuart Shapiro at Illinois Relativity Group

• What happens when Black Holes collide ? (Brochure publication)
  Mit Kotak, Eric Yu, Jinghan Huang, Jing Zhou, Milton Ruiz, Antonios Tsokaros, Lunan Sun, Stuart L. Shapiro
  Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation 2023 Brochure, Page 14
  Higher Resolution
  Department Post

HPC Middlewares for Geospatial Computing

Prof. Anand Padmanabhan at CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies

• Providing accessible software environments across science gateways and HPC
  Alexander Michels, Mit Kotak, Anand Padmanabhan, John Speaks, Shaowen Wang
  PEARC 2024

• CyberGIS-Compute: Middleware for Democratizing Scalable Geocomputation
  Alexander Michels, Anand Padmanabhan, Zimo Xiao, Mit Kotak, Furqan Baig, Shaowen Wang
  SoftwareX Volume 26, May, 2024

• Streamlined HPC Environments with CVMFS and CyberGIS-Compute
  Alexander Michels, Mit Kotak, Anand Padmanabhan, Shaowen Wang
  IGUIDE Forum 2023