Welcome

I'm a 5th year Physics PhD student studying cosmology at the University of Texas at Austin. I'm affiliated with the Texas Cosmology Center. Very generally, my areas of interest are cosmology and fundamental physics.

My current research involves studying the formation and detection of non-Gaussianities in the primordial curvature perturbation. To put it slightly less technically, I'm interested in an extremely early period of the universe's history called cosmic inflation. Surprisingly, cosmic inflation has actually left us some signatures which we can observe, like anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. However, inflation is also quite mysterious because we don't know what caused it. My research will (hopefully) make progress in that area.

I am starting to also study bubble inflation.

I'm currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the astronomy department for my adviser Eiichiro Komatsu.