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Shreyas Vemulapalli
01About

In one paragraph.

I'm Shreyas, a 17-year-old student in Dubai. I spend most of my free time reading physics, and I'd like to keep doing that for a long time.

I'm working through my A-Levels (Class of 2027) and I'm currently part of The Knowledge Society (TKS), a 10-month program where teenagers spend time on emerging technologies and big problems. It's been useful mostly as a way to think harder.

The areas I keep coming back to are astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and nuclear fusion. Outside of that, I play golf and football, I train and box to stay sharp, and I read pretty widely — not only physics.

What I want is fairly simple: study physics at university, see how far I can take it, and try to do work that's genuinely useful. I'm at the very start of that.

A few things I'm trying to remember

  • - Curiosity is more useful than confidence.
  • - It's fine to not understand something yet.
  • - Good work takes patience, not just ambition.
●  TKS Innovate, 2025/26
●  A-Levels · Class of 2027
●  Based in Dubai, UAE
03Journey

Where I am,
and what's next.

  1. A-Levels

    2024 · 2027

    AS Level done. A2 starts June 2026. Class of 2027.

  2. The Knowledge Society (TKS)

    2025 · 2026

    Currently in TKS — a 10-month program where teenagers spend time on emerging technologies and real-world problems. It's been pushing how I think.

  3. Golf

    Ongoing

    I play regularly. Still working on the short game.

  4. Football

    Ongoing

    Pickup games, mostly. It clears my head.

  5. ✦

    Undergraduate physics, then a PhD

    Next

    An undergraduate degree in physics, then a PhD. That's the direction — and I'm building toward it deliberately, one year at a time.

07Outside physics

Discipline,
not just sport.

Sport · 01

Golf

Golf is the slowest sport I play, and that's the point. It rewards patience, preparation, and making one good decision at a time. Those are habits I try to bring to everything else.

Discipline · 02

Boxing & fitness

I train most days — boxing, conditioning, the usual. Not because I'm any good at it, but because it's the only thing I've found that forces me to be present. There's no shortcut in a bag session. You show up, or you don't. That habit carries over into everything else.

Sport · 03

Football

The opposite. Instinct, teamwork, fast decisions. It's how I switch off.

●  And the physics that runs underneath all of it

01Atom · quantum
02Ψ · wavefunction
03Singularity · astro
04Tokamak · fusion