Ishaan Bhadoo

I am a Mathematics PhD student at the University of Cambridge working on Probability Theory. I am funded by the Gates Cambridge scholarship. My advisor is Professor Wendelin Werner.

Email: ishaanbhadoo@gmail.com · ib530@cam.ac.uk

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Research interests

Percolation; random walks and cover/meeting times; Gaussian Free Field; loop soups.

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Short bio

• B. Math, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (2021-2024)
• Part III (Mathematical Tripos), Trinity College, Cambridge (2024–25).
• PhD (from Oct 2025), University of Cambridge.

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Preprints & publications

• Critical Threshold for Regular Graphs — [arXiv:2412.00635].

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Ongoing & recent work

• Meeting times and Cover Times in Dynamical Percolation
  Comparison principles for vertex-transitive graphs; conditions for tightness of Matthews’ bound in the dynamical setting.

• Percolation of Words (with Ritvik Radhakrishnan)
  Generalises Kesten–Benjamini on periodic trees: all words appear in a locally finite tree.
  [PDF] · [Progress notes] · [pp. 6–7]

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