N 40.4237 · DUSK · HORIZON ∞
PhD Candidate · Experimental High-Energy Physics
Purdue University · CMS · CERN· Fermilab
May I know what is real.
May ignorance be replaced by wisdom.
May I realize my true Self.
May there be: peace, peace, and peace.
— inspired by the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
All of it at once. Gravity draws matter into a web across the dark. Reality runs. Perhaps, underneath, it computes. Follow one thread down.
Down that thread, an instrument — a ring built to ask the web what it is made of, forty million times a second. These works are what came back.
Probabilistic inference implemented directly on-chip at the sensor edge for charged-particle tracking — pushing AI/ML into the detector front-end under extreme latency and power constraints.
An end-to-end tool for hardware-aware compression of machine-learning models — structured pruning and quantization tuned for deployment under real-time, resource-constrained conditions.
Characterization of the electromagnetic calorimeter and readout electronics for DarkQuest, a beam-dump search for dark-sector particles at Fermilab.
Integrating signal processing and AI/ML data filtering directly in-pixel, reducing data volume at the earliest possible point in particle tracking detectors.
Co-designing sensors and on-chip intelligence for the smart-pixels program: coupling detector design with embedded ML from the ground up.
Modeling quasi-periodic oscillations in accreting compact sources as a nonlinear hydrodynamical resonance, and using them to constrain the spin of the central compact object.
An asymptotically flat rotating black-hole vacuum solution in a modified theory of gravity, with implications for how deviations from general relativity could show up around spinning black holes.
And the asking serves something alive — matter awake, the universe looking back through many windows.
Colliders and the Higgs sector — asking what the vacuum is made of.
Black holes, accretion, oscillations — geometry keeping its own time.
Learning squeezed into silicon — models that fit where the data is born.
Microsecond choices about what survives — attention as an algorithm.
What reality computes, and what it costs to ask.
The substrate question — whether the render ever shows its seams.
Almost all of what comes back is noise. Sometimes — this.
The measurement will outlive the noise. So will the question.
“It from bit.” — J. A. Wheeler