Suman S. Kulkarni

Ph.D. candidate in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania

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sumank[at]upenn[dot]edu
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I’m Suman, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania advised by Dani S. Bassett. This website is under construction, so stay tuned!

news

Aug 06, 2026 I am making a website! :sparkles:
Aug 02, 2026 New preprint “Quantifying the cost of network computations to unpack structure-function relationships in the brain” :brain:
May 13, 2026 New preprint “Topological and morphological signatures of disorder in a self-assembled, soft matter sponge network” :sponge:
Mar 17, 2026 My talk at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit won first place in the Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics’s student speaker prize session! :tada:

selected publications

  1. Quantifying the cost of network computations to unpack structure-function relationships in the brain
    Suman S Kulkarni, Jason Z Kim, Panos Fotiadis, Fabio Pasqualetti, and 1 more author
    arXiv:2607.29537, 2026
    arXiv
  2. Toward principles of brain network organization and function
    Suman Kulkarni and Dani S Bassett
    Annual Review of Biophysics, 2025
    PDF
  3. Ising dynamics on multilayer networks with heterogeneous layers
    Suman S Kulkarni, Christopher W Lynn, Mason A Porter, and Dani S Bassett
    arXiv:2509.20216, 2025
    arXiv