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Welcome to my homepage!

I'm a 4th year UofT student completing an Astronomy and Physics Specialist, Computer Science Minor, and Math Minor by 2025. I grew up in Brampton, Ontario, where I completed the IB Program at Turner Fenton Secondary School. I founded the school's first ever Astronomy Club and have involved myself in astronomy outreach ever since, previously serving as VP of Communications for UofT's Astronomy Union, and now acting as its VP of Operations.

Other cool doings: I was a TA for MAT135 during the 2023 fall semester, and will TA for MAT136 next semester. In summer 2024, I did some research in radio astronomy under Prof. Juan Mena-Parra and PhD student Mattias Lazda. My project explored how well the location of a pulsar could be constrained using very-long-baseline interferometry with the CHIME + Outriggers telescopes using sub-optimal calibrators, motivated by wanting to test fast radio burst localization abilities under unideal circumstances. I'm currently working with Dr. Sam Hadden to implement Kozai-Lidov Oscillations in celmech, an analytical celestial mechanics code he co-created. I'm also working with Prof. Chris Matzner and Dr. Pavan Vynatheya on simulations where stars are smashed through black hole accretion disks. Contact me if you want to know more about any of these projects!

Here are the courses I've completed, am currently taking, or plan to take at UofT:

Astronomy Physics Math Computer Science Other

CTA200

AST221

AST222

AST326

AST320

AST425

AST431

PHY151

PHY152

PHY256

PHY250

PHY252

PHY254

PHY224

PHY350

PHY356

PHY354

PHY407

PHY408

MAT157

MAT240

MAT224

MAT237

MAT244

STA257

APM346

MAT334

CSC108

CSC148

CSC165

CSC207

CSC209

CSC236

CSC311

CSC413

EAS121

ESS205

PHL245

I highly recommend visiting the astrophotos and cool stuff sections of this website, as they contain most of the content I've uploaded here. Building this site from scratch has been a project of mine since summer 2023. I update it every month or so. If you notice any bugs or other issues, please contact me.