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Education

• Ph.D in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019 - 2024
  • Advisor: Itamar Kimchi
• M.S. in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019 - 2023
  • (GPA: 4.00)
• B.S. in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Yale College, 2018
  • Advisor: Nir Navon

Work experience

• Graduate Student Researcher (2019 - present)
  • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Graduate Teaching Assistant (2019 - present)
  • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Postgraduate Research Assistant (2018 - 2019)
  • Physics Department, Yale University
  • Advisor: Nir Navon

Skills

• Languages
  • English (fluent)
  • Urdu (native)
  • Spanish (conversational)
• Programming Languages
  • Python (proficient)
  • MATLAB
  • Mathematica
  • C++ (novice)
  • LaTeX
• Frameworks
  • TensorFlow
  • Scikit-learn
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Seaborn
  • Matplotlib
  • BeautifulSoup
  • TeNPy
• Platforms
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Arduino

Publications

Spinons and damped phonons in the spin-1/2 quantum liquid Ba₄Ir₃O₁₀ observed by Raman scattering

Control of chiral orbital currents in a colossal magnetoresistance material

Crystalline topological defects within response theory

Talks

Spinons and damped phonons in spin-1/2 quantum-liquid Ba₄Ir₃O₁₀ observed by Raman scattering

January 13, 2022

Talk at MagLab Theory Winter School (2022, Virtual), Tallahassee, Florida

Raman response via 4-spinon continuum in spin-1/2 quantum liquid Ba₄Ir₃O₁₀

March 14, 2022

Talk at APS March Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

Optical Signatures for Fractional Excitations in Quantum Liquid Candidate Ba₄Ir₃O₁₀

May 04, 2022

Talk at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Raman Responses With and Without Topological Defects

December 22, 2022

Talk at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Topological Defects in a Response Theory

May 15, 2023

Talk at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Dynamics and Quantum Information in Many-body Systems

June 12, 2023

Talk at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Dynamical Response and Transport in Quantum Magnets

August 28, 2023

Talk at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA

Teaching

Yale University

Georgia Tech

Service and leadership

• President of Graduate Association of Physicists (GAP) (2022 - 2023)
  • Leads a graduate student organization (+100 members) in the Georgia Tech School of Physics aiming to provide mentoring, networking and career development opportunities to physics PhD students
  • Bringing in speakers who earned PhDs in physics and work outside of academia
  • Organizing physics community outreach events
  • Facilitating mentoring sessions for incoming first year physics PhD students to help them get acclimated with their new responsibilities and roles
  • Organizing department-wide social events
  • Liasing between the faculty and graduate students to improve student life
• College of Sciences (CoS) Dean’s Graduate Advisory Council (2022 - 2023)
  • Discuss and advise deans on decisions affecting CoS graduate students
  • Bridging graduate students and CoS administration
• Equity in Graduate Education Consortium (2022 - 2023)
  • building capacity for equitable practices in PhD programs via innovative professional development
  • facilitating the development of sustainable infrastructure for faculty learning & institutional change
  • conducting and translating research that is inspired by community needs
• Student Organizer for Quantum Materials Cookies & Coffee (2021 - present)
  • International speaker series focusing on quantum materials (20 members).
  • Leads weekly meetings and organizes student speaker schedule
• Student Organizer for Quantum Journal Club (2021)
  • Leads and organizes student-led journal club focusing on condensed matter and atomic, molecular, optical physics for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty (40 members)