About

I completed my PhD working with Dr. Katie Mack’s group at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. I was also jointly affiliated with North Carolina State University, where Katie was earlier.

The focus of my research is on cosmology, the study of the content and evolution of the universe. For my PhD, I worked on calculations and simulations of physics in the very early universe (the first few minutes) and how what happened then could impact what we see today. More specifically, I worked on “hidden sector” theories, in which dark matter lives in a sector secluded from the zoo of visible Standard Model particles.

From October 2024, I will be joining the Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) at the Observatoire de Paris in Meudon as a postdoctoral researcher. I will be working on the ProGraceRay project, conducting N-body simulations of modified gravity by implementing the effective field theory of dark energy in the RAMSES code.

On the side, I also dabble in cricket analysis, including poring over Hawkeye data. I contributed stats analysis articles to ESPNcricinfo from 2019 to 2022. Here is my author page and here is my cricket blog. I also wrote a long-read about how data is changing cricket for FiftyTwo, the online magazine. I also worked as a cricket analytics / data science / strategy consultant for the Indian Men’s team under Mr. Rahul Dravid from 2022 to 2024, helping the team win the 2024 T20 World Cup.

I was born in Delhi, India, and I did my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani. I moved on to a master’s in physics from Jawaharlal Nehru University before starting my PhD. I try to sing and cook in my free time, when I’m not obsessing over Delhi food and history or Coke Studio Pakistan.