Who am I?

Astrophysicist

I am currently a PhD candidate in physics at Harvard University working under Michael Johnson with the local Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) group. I currently research black hole phenomenology. Some topics and techniques I routinely use include strong field gravitational lensing, the phenomenology of exotic black hole space times, Newman-Penrose formalism and Bayesian inference.

I studied black hole thermodynamics through their effects on quantum field theory in undergrad. I did my undergrad thesis on a project where I used dimensional reduction techniques to calculate thermodynamic quantities of near-extremal Kerr black holes. I then briefly worked on collider physics, where I automated some of the pipeline used for metrology on the detectors that were to be installed in the ATLAS experiment during CERN’s long shutdown 3.

I’m a polyglot programmer and have done projects in C/C++, OpenGL, WebGL, Javascript, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Typescript, Java, Python and most recently Julia. I like to learn about random things and am attracted to engaging conversations. In my spare time, I sometimes work on coding projects and make bad music demos. You can checkout some of my interactive physics projects in Projects.