I am currently a final-year undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, pursuing B.Tech. in Engineering Physics (with honours) and a minor in mathematics. I am applying to the Hong Kong Laureate Forum (HKLF) with a focus on the subfield of Astronomy - I’m excited by the application of abstract mathematical ideas to natural sciences. I've pursued Astronomy in my undergraduate through various projects (enlisted in my CV in detail), ranging across multiple subfields. I plan to join graduate school very shortly and hope to pursue a career in academia founded on international collaboration. I believe that the Forum will act as a stepping stone for me as a young researcher, enabling me to meet and interact with multiple scientists from across the world working in different areas. Further, I'm applying with the hope of presenting my own work at the Forum, which would enable me to receive constructive feedback from the esteemed participants.

My broad research interests are cosmology, evolution of the large-scale structure, and galaxy dynamics and evolution. In particular, I’m excited by computational geometry problems and enjoy working with numerical simulations. I have in the past worked on Gaia data analysis, theoretical and physical cosmology, large N-body simulations, and gravitational wave data. I’ve worked at MPI for Astrophysics Garching, researching how the galaxies and dark matter haloes in the Cosmic Web differ systematically from the ones outside it. I was a part of a project (carried out entirely by two undergraduates including myself) trying to understand how one can trace the interaction history of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by analyzing the proper motions of its globular clusters. I’m also interested in understanding how Binary Black Hole (BBH) populations evolve with time using gravitational waves, which is my Bachelor's Thesis project at TIFR Mumbai, India. Some of my other projects may be found in detail in my CV. I’d like to present a poster based on my paper “The relation of galaxies and dark matter haloes to the filamentary Cosmic Web” in the Forum.