Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), specializing in gravitational-wave astronomy. Gravitational waves have emerged as a powerful tool for probing astrophysics as well as fundamental physics through the universe’s most compact objects, neutron stars and black holes.
Prior to joining CMI, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). My current research focuses on compact-binary population inference and the development of advanced data-analysis methodologies for the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA–LIGO India (LVK–LI) network, as well as for next-generation detectors such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer. During my PhD at ICTS-TIFR and a subsequent postdoctoral appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI, Potsdam), I worked on waveform modeling of compact-binary mergers, tests of General Relativity, and gravitational lensing of gravitational waves.
This website provides an overview of my past and current research, publication list, scientific talks, and CV.
Illustration of the first gravitational-wave event detected by LIGO. The observed waveforms from the LIGO Hanford (orange) and LIGO Livingston (blue) detectors are shown beneath an artist’s depiction of the merging black holes. Credit: LIGO, NSF, and Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State University).