I am Haimeng Zhao (赵海萌), a PhD student in Physics at Caltech. I received my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics with Honours from Tsinghua University in 2024.
I’m deeply fascinated by how the universe works and how we can possibly understand it.
So I started working in the intersection of Physics and Intelligence.
In particular, I’m interested in the physical nature of learning and computation. Three overarching questions motivate my work:
- How do physical laws impact our ability to learn and how to harness them?
- How does our (in)ability to learn impact our perception of the physical reality?
- What is the ultimate physical limit of learning and computation?
I draw tools from theoretical physics, computer science, and machine learning to answer these questions.


