I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Relativity Group within the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  Funding supported by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.  In 2022 I completed my PhD in physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) working with Dr. Yanbei Chen where I was fully support by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, and Gates Foundation.  

 

My primary interests are in relativity, gravitational waves, and cosmology where I am a member of both the Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe (ICASU) and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (half-membership).  In particular, I work on tests of relativity and astrophysics through gravitational wave observations, some examples being beyond-GR dispersion & polarization, three-body systems, and next generation (XG) detectors.

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