About

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

My focus is on cosmology, the study of the content and evolution of the universe. Specifically, I work 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 work on “hidden sector” theories, in which dark matter lives in a sector secluded from the zoo of visible Standard Model particles.

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 moonlight as a cricket analytics / data science / strategy consultant.

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.