Hello! I'm a first-year PhD student in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto.

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I graduated with honors in astrophysics from UC Berkeley in 2025. As an undergraduate researcher at UC Berkeley, I worked on black hole microlensing and contributed by adding binary models with orbital motion to a microlensing package called the Bayesian Analysis of Gravitational Lensing Events (BAGLE). After graduation, I worked as a Post-Baccalaureate researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where I developed an automated high-resolution imaging analysis pipeline for microlensing targets in the Nancy Grace Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES). 

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I'm very interested in research opportunities at the intersection of stellar physics, extragalactic astronomy, and data science.  ​​

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I grew up in Mumbai, India. Anyone who knows me knows I've wanted to change my name since elementary school. I've never liked my legal name, and for many reasons, I have negative associations with it. 

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In the summer before my junior year at college, I read Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. The story deeply resonated with me, and the book's protagonist, Dex, became someone I saw a lot of myself in.  And so, I changed my name.