Amarnath Patel

I'm a student at the University of Central Florida, majoring in physics (optics and lasers) and mathematics with a minor in computer science. I do research in Dr. Stephen Eikenberry's astrophotonics lab at CREOL, where I characterized photonic lanterns with off-axis digital holography and now automate pointing for PolyOculus, an array of eight networked telescopes. I also work in the UCF Physics department with Dr. Zhongzhou Chen on physics-education research.

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Work

Stardust Finding once-risky asteroids in old sky photos, with a GPU orbit engine and an AI detector.
Photonic lanterns Measured a lantern's complex transfer matrix by off-axis digital holography, across the C‑band.
CELERIS A rigorous coupled-wave solver and metalens design pipeline, written from scratch in C++23 and CUDA.
PolyOculus Pointing automation for an array of eight networked telescopes.
AI text detectors What evasion techniques actually cost you in style, and buy you in detectability.
ESTELA and Narvi Exam generation and interactive STEM demos, both agentic.

Writing

My homelab The used ThinkPad that runs my apps, and how I reach them.
My dotfiles The config for my computer.
What's left of my degree A running, semester-by-semester log of physics, math, and the CS minor.
Getting clangd to work on NixOS Why the standard library goes missing, and the two files that fix it.
The built-in Windows tree command is trash Three flags, two options, and what to use instead.