I’m a grad student at UC Santa Barbara in the Marchetti group. My work broadly encompasses the mechanics and patterning of cells and tissues. I’m currently playing with chemo-mechanical feedback in active solids like Hydra. I’m also benchmarking a k-Nearest-Neighbour algorithm inspired coarse-graining technique I developed with my mentor Fridtjof Brauns. In the past I’ve modelled nematic cells growing atop nematic substrates inspired by the wonderful work by Yimin Luo. I have also collaborated with the Pruitt Lab on modelling their micro-rheology set up in Epithelial cell lines. Before starting my PhD I studied spatiotemporal interaction dynamics of E. Coli. and temperate lambda phages; Autonomous Boolean Network formalism of chemo-mechanical regulatory networks involved in bone remodelling; and detection of mu-neutrinos in Liq-Ar Time Projection Chambers.

I am interested in understanding the physics of biology. Why do living systems behave the way they do? I was trained as an Engineering Physicist at IIT-Bombay—neither an engineer nor a physicist but a secret third confluence of the two.

In my free time I go birding around Santa Barbara and various National Parks around CA!

I am currently looking for Postdoctoral positions starting Fall 2026.