About Me

• “A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.” - Lev Landau

Hello! I’m a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in physics @ Northeastern University and the NSF AI Insititute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) advised by Jim Halverson and Jonathan Blazek. I’m also a member of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). I’m a physicist and a cosmologist. I’m generally interested in the intersection of artificial intelligence and physics, particularly applications which utilize differentiable programming/simulations and Bayesian inference. I’m currently doing a DOE SCGSR at Fermilab with Dr. Aleksandra Ciprajanovic, where I’m working on incorporating geometric deep learning and transportation theory for robustness in AI algorithms.

My past research focused on effective deep learning algorithms to weigh supermassive black holes. Please see my papers for my most recent work.

I earned my BSc in Engineering Physics with minors in Math & Astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I was a NSF fellow at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Galaxy and Black Hole Astrophysics Group working under Dr. Xin Liu.

In my freetime, I enjoy weightlifting, biking, and adding records to online shopping carts which never get checked out.

My alma mater referenced in a xkcd comic