Yadav Pandit was born in Tikuri, Pyuthan District, located in the western hills of Nepal.

He is a member of STAR collaboration, a large international group of scientists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

[3][4] Pandit is an expert in measurements of anisotropy, studying fluid-like behavior and phase transitions in the dense and highly excited matter created in these collisions.

In 2014, his work related to the observation of first-order phase transition in subatomic nuclear matter gained worldwide attention and was widely reported.

Pandit's scientific area of interest is in phase transition phenomena[7] in the dense and highly excited nuclear matter created in heavy ion collisions.