Updated September 2026
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign working across numerical relativity, multimessenger astrophysics, and open-source high-performance computing.
Research interests
Numerical relativity · gravitational waves · magnetohydrodynamics · compact binary mergers · multimessenger astrophysics · relativistic jets · radiation and neutrino transport · r-process nucleosynthesis · scientific applications of large language models
Appointments
- Aug 2025–present — Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign; advisor: Prof. Helvi Witek
- Jan 2023–Jul 2025 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology; advisor: Prof. Manuela Campanelli
- Jan–Dec 2022 — Postdoctoral Researcher, INAF–Padova; advisor: Dr. Riccardo Ciolfi
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics, University of Padova, 2021 — summa cum laude
Thesis: Binary Neutron Star Mergers in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics - M.S. in Astrophysics, AstroMundus Programme, 2018 — 110/110 cum laude
Thesis: GRMHD Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers - M.S. in Applied Solid State Physics, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, 2016
- B.Tech. in Nuclear Science & Engineering, SRM University, 2014
Research, software & computing
- Lead developer and maintainer of AsterX, nuX, AsterAI, BHClusterX, FlowTracerX, and ParticleAHFinderX; developer or contributor to Spritz, SpacetimeX, CarpetX, and RePrimAnd.
- Principal investigator or co-investigator on 27 computational grants, totaling more than 50.4 million CPU-hours and 1 million GPU-hours; PI on 10 of those awards.
- Co-investigator on the €131K MAECI JetOut collaboration on short gamma-ray burst jets from binary neutron star mergers.
- 18 journal articles, more than 550 citations, and h-index 12 as reported by NASA ADS in the September 2026 CV.
Leadership, teaching & mentoring
- Local and scientific organizer of the 2026 North American Einstein Toolkit Workshop and School at UIUC.
- Local organizer of the 2025 CSSI Einstein Toolkit Hackathon; team lead for the AsterX/CarpetX group at the 2023 Frontier Hackathon.
- Guest lecturer in Classical Mechanics at UIUC and on GRMHD and numerical methods at RIT; designer and presenter of CarpetX and AsterX tutorials.
- Co-mentor to graduate researchers Allen Wen, Amara Nusbickel, Maxwell Rizzo, Noora Ghadiri, and Freddy Pardoe.
- Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, Physical Review journals, Classical and Quantum Gravity, and Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Selected recognition
- Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, 2026
- UIUC STEP program, 2025–2026
- Cariparo Ph.D. scholarship, 2018–2021
- Best Ph.D. Student Talk, PHAROS Conference, 2019
- AstroMundus consortium scholarship, 2016–2018
- Best Master Thesis Award, M.S. Ramaiah University, 2016