Faculty Profiles

My research interests are in the theoretical and computational aspects of neutrino physics, nuclear/particle astrophysics and cosmology. Of late, a primary focus of my research has been regarding the synthesis of heavy elements in extreme astrophysical environments like supernovae. In particular, my collaborators and I have been attacking a decades-long standing problem in nuclear astrophysics, pertaining to the origin and abundance of certain proton-rich isotopes in our solar system. We have gained some interesting insights, as we discuss in a recent paper. Plenty of exciting work remains in progress. Before Reed College, I held a visiting assistant professorship at New York Institute of Technology (2024-25), and postdoctoral positions at University of Minnesota  (2023-24) in the Nuclear Theory group, at SLAC (2020-23) in the Particle Theory group, and at UC Berkeley (2017-20) in the NSF-funded N3AS research hub (Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries). Prior to that, I had completed my PhD in Physics from UC San Diego in 2017 and a bachelors degree in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay in 2011. I have taught physics at the undergraduate and graduate levels, most recently at the New York Institute of Technology and at the University of Minnesota.