about me

I’m a fourth year Ph.D. student at UCLA working with Professor Steve Furlanetto. I am generally interested in building theory models to study anything happening in the early universe. I am currently using semi-analytic models to study the formation of the first stars and black holes in the universe — see my research page for more details.

Before coming to UCLA, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and got my undergraduate degree in physics and math at Columbia University. While I was an undergrad, I spent summers with the Stanford Solar Physics Group, the Computational Physics Division at Los Alamos National Lab, and with a few groups at Columbia, working on projects ranging from solar physics to black hole accretion disk modeling — all incorporating computational astrophysics in some form. If you’re really curious, take a peek at my CV.

Outside astronomy, you’ll find me playing and watching tennis, basketball, and cornhole, reading sci-fi and fantasy books, playing board games and TTRPGs, and surfing.

Homepage image courtesy of Phil Travis