Physics meets AI.
Built in public.

I'm Ankit Pawar, an astrophysicist turned founder in Scotland. Follow the line to see what I'm building, what I'm learning, and what I can build for you.

A gravitational-wave chirp: two black holes spiralling into each other. It's where my physics started.

Orbital AI

My company. Building now.

Satellites send home patchy, sparse telemetry, and the faults that matter most hide in the gaps. Orbital AI is building anomaly detection for exactly this kind of telemetry. The company has its own website at orbital-ai.uk.

Telemetry from one satelliteIllustration, not real data
Telemetry only arrives while a satellite passes over a ground station. A fault can start while nobody is listening.
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On the bench

Ideas I'm developing. You'll see the problem and the direction here; the methods come later, once they're ready.

  • Physicist AI

    Experimental physics loses weeks to setup, calibration and debugging that nobody writes papers about. A science copilot for the people doing that work at the bench.

  • Trust between AI agents

    When many AI agents work together, how do you know the system is still behaving?

  • Systematic trading

    Can a physicist's view of noise and signal hold up in markets?

  • A compute core, toward silicon

    Learning what it takes to go from a design on screen to real hardware.

Research and learning

I learn by building. My MSc was spent listening for gravitational waves, which mostly means fighting noise.

    A noise budget: what limits a gravitational-wave detector at each frequency. The amber line is what it can hear. Move along it to see which noise wins. Textbook shapes, not a real detector.

    Gravitational waves and interferometry

    My MSc in Astrophysics at Glasgow: simulating the noise that limits detectors, and hands-on optics in the lab.

    Computational physics

    Solving the equations physics actually throws at you, and learning when to trust the numbers.

    OCaml from scratch

    A functional language, learned in public, confusions included.

    Quantum computing

    Building intuition with Qiskit, one circuit at a time.

    • Python
    • C++
    • OCaml
    • Machine learning
    • Qiskit
    • Optics and photonics
    • Noise modelling
    • Numerical methods
    • Docker and cloud

    Projects on demand

    Bring me a problem from anywhere in the world. If solving it would help lots of people, I'll build it in public, for free. If it's specific to you, your lab or your company, it's a paid project, and it stays private.

    Around the world

    Drag to turn the Earth. The shaded side is where it's night right now, worked out from the Sun's position. Pins sit at country level, and only with the client's OK.
    • Delivered
    • In progress
    • Home base
    • You

    On the globe

      Two ways to work together

      Suggest a build

      Free, built in public

      An idea that would help lots of people. I pick the strongest ones, build them on camera and publish the result for anyone to use.

      Commission a project

      Paid, kept private

      Something specific to you, your lab or your company. You get a fixed quote before any work starts, and your name stays out of everything I publish. Contracts and invoices come from my company, Orbital AI Space Limited.

      Not sure which? Send it as a free suggestion. If it turns out to be specific to you, I'll tell you and quote it.

      What I build

      Every paid project gets a fixed quote before any work starts. Free builds cost nothing.

      Physics and scientific simulation
      A working model of your system, checked against known results, with a short report someone else can pick up.
      AI and machine learning
      A model or agent for one clearly defined job, tested on your data, with an honest account of where it fails.
      Data analysis and dashboards
      Your data cleaned, analysed and turned into a dashboard people actually open.
      Optics and lab instrumentation
      Calibration, beam profiling and measurement scripts for your setup, worked remotely from your recorded data.
      Websites and web tools
      A fast, simple site or small web tool, built and handed over so you can run it yourself.
      Something else
      Tell me the problem. If it involves physics, maths or code, there's a good chance I can help.

      How it works

      1. Send the problem

        A few sentences is enough. Use the form below.

      2. Get a straight answer

        Yes, no, or a question. If it's not a fit, I'll say so.

      3. Then it gets built

        Free ideas get built in public. Paid projects get a fixed quote, then the build, then a handover.

      Send a request

      What kind of request?

      Turns the globe to you. Never published without your OK.

      A few sentences is enough.

      Paid work is private by default. I never publish client names. A project goes on the globe only if you say yes, and only as a country-level pin. How your details are handled.

      The log

      What I've shipped and posted, newest first. Posts from Instagram and YouTube land here as they go out.

      1. Nov 2026This site goes live at ankitinorbit.comWebsite

      Want to build, collaborate or invest?

      I'm building in the open, and I'm always glad to talk to people working on hard problems.

      Send a project request Email me