I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Centre for Computational Biology advised by Mike Shelley.

I completed my PhD from UC Santa Barbara where I was advised by Cristina Marchetti. My PhD 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.

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.

I am an avid birder and will suffer many hikes to spot some cool birds!