I’m a grad student at UC Santa Barbara in the Marchetti group. I work on theoretical and computational Epithelial Rheology in collaboration with the Pruitt Lab. I’ve previously studied spatiotemporal interaction dynamics of E. Coli. and temperate lambda phages; Autonomous Boolean Network formalism of chemomechanical 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.