Experience
Graduate Research Assistant — University of Rhode Island
- Developed scientific modeling, training, and inference workflows on the MGHPCC Unity cluster using Slurm, MPI, parallel Python, and GPU acceleration.
- Collaborated with researchers across the LIGO Scientific and SXS Collaborations to define requirements, design Python interfaces, review code, and integrate models into shared frameworks.
- Wrote documentation and tutorials for external users and mentored two undergraduate researchers in Python and computational methods.
Research Computing Facilitator Trainee — Yale University Center for Research Computing
- Supported researchers adopting machine learning and data-processing workflows on the MGHPCC Unity cluster as part of the NSF CyberTeam CAREERS program.
- Engineered a distributed pipeline that processed 5.8 million Wikipedia articles in batches and trained GloVe word embeddings reaching 80% accuracy on standard word-analogy benchmarks.
Teaching Assistant — University of Rhode Island
- Taught introductory physics and astronomy, led problem-solving sessions and observation workshops, and provided individual guidance to students.
- Strengthened the communication practices I now bring to documentation, technical mentoring, and collaboration with researchers from different backgrounds.
Education
PhD, Physics — University of Rhode Island
Dissertation: Advancing Gravitational Wave Modeling for Binary Black Holes: Expanding Parameter Space and Quantifying Uncertainty
MSc, Physics — Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
BSc, Physics — Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta
Skills
Programming & Data
- Python
- SQL
- Bash
- C
- Fortran
- MATLAB
- NumPy
- SciPy
- Pandas
- PostgreSQL
- SQLAlchemy
Scientific Computing
- Numerical modeling
- Reduced-order modeling
- Singular value decomposition
- Empirical interpolation
- Gaussian process regression
- Bayesian inference
- Uncertainty quantification
- Time-series analysis
Machine Learning
- PyTorch
- Scikit-learn
- XGBoost
- Graph neural networks
- Temporal modeling
- Anomaly detection
- Imbalanced classification
- Feature engineering
- Model evaluation
- NLP
High-Performance Computing
- Slurm
- MPI
- Parallel and distributed workflows
- GPU acceleration
- PyTorch
- CuPy
- MGHPCC Unity
- Linux
- Apptainer
Software Engineering
- Git & GitHub
- pytest
- GitHub Actions
- pip packaging
- Code review
- API design
- FastAPI
- Docker
- Technical documentation
- Jupyter notebooks
Domain Tools
- gwsurrogate
- bilby
- LALSuite
- Gravitational-wave modeling
- Parameter estimation
- Waveform-systematics analysis
Awards, Talks & Activities
Awards & Funding
- Dean's Fellowship, University of Rhode Island, 2024–2025
- NASA Travel Grant ($1,500) for the 15th LISA Symposium, Dublin, 2024
- Bhavesh Gandhi Memorial Prize for the best M.Sc. thesis, IIT Bombay, 2020
- Deep Learning Bootcamp Certificate, The Erdős Institute, 2025
Selected Talks
- American Physical Society April Meetings, 2023 and 2024
- Eastern Gravity Meeting, 2023
- University of Glasgow Student Seminar, 2024
- Brown University IDEA Symposium, 2024
- 15th LISA Symposium, Dublin, 2024
Professional Communities
LIGO Scientific Collaboration · Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration · LISA Consortium · American Physical Society