My research focus is on the fundamental physics that underlies the nature of the Universe. My goals are to study the Universe as a whole, while gaining insight into its origin, composition, structure, evolution and ultimately its fate. To that end, I work in high energy theory - working on building successful theories (of gravity and matter) that might explain all known observations so far while making new predictions, for example Chameleon Gravity. I also work on using the tools of high energy physics to try to solve open problems in astrophysics. 

On the more observational side, I am currently fascinated with Fast Radio Bursts, not only in trying to understand their progenitor mechanisms but also in the ways in which we can use them to solve open problems in cosmology. I am one of the Lead Investigators on the HIRAX project which is a 21cm intensity mapping experiment that will allow us to both learn about dark energy and its evolution and learn a fortune about FRBs by observing many tens of thousands of them. 

I am currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. Previously, I was a Lecturer at the University of Windsor, Canada. I was also a Visiting Assistant Professor in Colorado State University-Pueblo, USA. Prior to my faculty position in Windsor, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Witwatersrand and at the University of Cape Town.

I obtained my Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Physics from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Then I started my Ph D at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, earning a Ph D in 2010 as a student of Professor Akikazu Hashimoto.

I am interested in Quantum Information theory and Gauge/Gravity duality. Quantum Information is the perfect melting pot for integrating different areas of Physics, Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. The key ingredient for this unification is an information theoretic quantity called complexity. Presently, I am working on how complexity can be related to quantum chaos. Besides my research on Complexity, I am also interested in Cosmology and String Cosmology.

As a mathematical physicist, my research interests lie primarily in understanding the mathematical structures that underpin much of the physical universe. Many of these structures are wonderfully universal, connecting physics on cosmological scales, to the smallest of quantum scales. My own work revolves largely around emergent phenomena, from condensed matter to neurophysics. My recent focus has been on low-dimensional dualities - where I was a co-discoverer of the 3D duality web - and topological quantum matter and information, including quantum chaos and complexity. 

A microsecond after the Big Bang, all of space existed at a trillion degrees, one hundred thousand times hotter than the center of the sun. 13.8 billion years later, massive collaborations of thousands of scientists recreate these conditions of the early universe thousands of times a second in one of the most expensive and complicated science experiments ever attempted. Using perturbative quantum chromodynamics and the methods of the AdS/CFT correspondence I study the properties of these Little Bangs, ephemeral fireballs that--during their lifetimes of less than a billionth of a trillionth of a second--are droplets of the hottest, most perfect fluid in the universe. 

I have a background in high energy theoretical physics, focusing on using string theory to understand strongly coupled matter. My research is also now focused on using Machine Learning both as a tool for analysing big datasets (from cosmology to neuroscience) as well as in the framework of Reinforcement Learning to study cognition and awareness.

My main focus is to better understand the physics of compact objects in order to explain some observed phenomena like fast radio bursts, supernovae, soft gamma repeaters and anomalous x-ray pulsars. I employ different physics, such as rotation, magnetic fields, modified gravity and noncommutative geometry to explain these phenomena. I also study the generation of gravitational waves from these compact objects and the possibility of their detection in the future by various gravitational wave detectors. 

I am interested in understanding various astrophysical phenomena with the help of pulsars. I use pulsars as tools in order to understand the interior of such stars, to look for nanohertz gravitational waves, to understand the interstellar medium, and to study the pulsar magnetosphere. 

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town (UCT), funded by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) since September 2024. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India (2021–2024). I completed my PhD at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, India, in 2021. I hold a Bachelor of Science (Physics Honors) degree and Masters of Science in Physics from the University of Delhi, India.

My research interests include pulsar astronomy, classical and general relativity, and gravitational-wave astrophysics. I currently study nanohertz gravitational-wave emissions from supermassive black hole binaries, with a focus on developing datasets for Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments. I am part of the African Pulsar Timing (APT) group, the Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA), and the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) collaborations, as well as the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) experiment, which combines global datasets with an aim to discover the low-frequency gravitational-wave universe.

Recently, I have also developed an interest in the study of Giant Pulses (GPs) observed in slowly rotating pulsars, and in studying the interstellar medium (ISM) through pulsar observations. 

My research revolves around observational cosmology, gravitation, and astrophysics, with a particular focus on Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and their potential as cosmological probes. I investigate how observational data can be used to test the concordance ΛCDM model, explore alternative cosmologies, and constrain modified theories of gravity.

I am particularly interested in bridging theory and observation through data-intensive approaches. I apply machine learning techniques to improve the analysis, interpretation, and classification of astrophysical signals, especially in the context of transient phenomena. My work is grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration and the use of modern computational tools to address fundamental questions in cosmology.

I am exploring the applications of the Raychaudhuri equation in FLRW Cosmology and Modified gravity frameworks. My research interests are: General Relativity and Cosmology. 

I am doing my PhD on Pulsar astronomy. Pulsars are highly dense objects pulsating in a few seconds to millisecond range. As pulsars are very stable clocks, they can also be used to probe many Gravitational Wave experiments. My main focus is to use pulsar timing data to analyze and search for the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB).

I am a PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCT. My research interests are: Pulsars, Fast Radio Bursts, and other fast transients. I'm currently searching for new radio pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud using MeerKAT and hence, I'm interested in observational astronomy. 

I am an MSc student in Applied Mathematics. My current research interests are in Carroll Symmetries and the Carroll limit of General Relativity. As the antithesis to the Galilean limit of General Relativity which provides the well studied Galilean Relativity, Carrollian physics allows us to understand cosmology in the limit as the speed of light goes to zero, opening channels towards further studying certain cosmological horizons. I am also interested in some aspects of Quantum Field Theory and Supersymmetry. 

I am currently pursuing my MSc in the department of Astronomy at UCT. The title of my research is Transients and FRBs in simultaneous optical-radio data. Our main goal is to search for an optical counterpart to fast radio bursts, by making use of MeerLICHT's (an optical telescope based in Sutherland whose name literally means "more light") ability to co-observe with MeerKAT, and my main interests are FRBs and transients in general. 

I am a Master’s student in astrophysics, currently studying mode-changing radio pulsars. Mode-changing pulsars dismantle what we normally imagine pulsar signals to be - stable and predictable. Instead, they portray two or more intensity “personalities”, in which they switch between a certain number of intensity profiles, sometimes routinely, sometimes not, and sometimes they null (switch off completely) in between this behaviour. I am particularly interested in studying these kinds of signals (in intensity and polarisation) and whether it can reveal anything about some of the many mysteries of pulsar emission mechanisms and radio beam structures. My MSc project focuses on analysing a 77-hour dataset of a known mode-changing radio pulsar, PSR J1748-2021A, with the MeerKAT Radio Telescope.

I am an MSc student specialising in theoretical astrophysics. My research interests include particle cosmology, gravitational waves and high energy astrophysical phenomena. I am currently working on fast radio bursts as potential sources of multi-messenger events and how they may be used to probe both fundamental and new physics.

My combined background in astronomy and artificial intelligence for science fuels my interest in machine learning applications in astronomy. My recent MSc project explored the use of machine learning techniques in a data-driven approach to estimate cosmological parameters.

I am also interested in developing advanced deep learning models to improve the search pipeline of fast radio bursts, enabling more robust signal detection and classification.