Rajya Vardhan Goel

Astrophysics student at UMass Amherst building simulations, data pipelines, and evidence-bound systems to find order in real-world problems.

Rajya Vardhan Goel is a final-year Physics/Astrophysics student at UMass Amherst (B.S. May 2026, Chancellor's Scholar). He works on stochastic simulations of ecological and statistical-physics systems with Prof. Jon Machta, and on data pipelines for messy real-world documents (most prominently the PALP citation pipeline).

Projects

• A Better Geopolitical Risk Index — A research plan for a modular LLM pipeline that reads global evidence, maps the systems countries depend on, and turns weak signals into an auditable risk state institutions can actually price.
• LLM Pipeline for Unstructured Bibliography — A highly complicated archaeological bibliography, turned into 40,628 structured rows with provenance.
• Ecological Simulations and Statistical Research — A plain-language research blog on how I simulate an ecological landscape patch by patch, sweep its parameters, and watch local population cycles turn into collective critical behaviour when the whole landscape is shaken by shared environmental noise.
• Delhi Metro in 3D — An interactive 3D map of all 12 running DMRC lines - built from a network with no public elevation profile, with uncertainty kept honest.