Education
Pande is from McLean, Virginia, and was in Langley High School's class of 1988. In 1992, Pande received his B.A. in Physics from Princeton University. His thesis advisor was Nobel laureate Philip Anderson. Three years later he received a PhD in Physics from MIT.
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