I’m a physics PhD from New York University advised by Stefano Martiniani currently doing an ML coop (and looking for a job :) ). Broadly, I’m interested in computational and scientific roles involving hard problems in collaborative environments.
Research
My PhD focused on the energy landscapes of soft sphere packings. I showed that commonly used numerical methods since the 1980s to identify basins of attraction in potential energy landscape studies introduce numerical artifacts that can give misleading results. See arXiv:2409.12113 (published in PNAS). A significant portion of my work also involves estimating volumes of basins of attraction in high dimensions using Markov chain Monte Carlo.
Updates
- October 2026: The basins of attraction of soft-sphere packings are not fractal, with Mathias Casiulis and Stefano Martiniani, published in PNAS!
- February 2026: Giving a talk at the Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN).
- December 2025: Defended my PhD thesis!