A selection of some of my ongoing and completed research projects. Click on any project to learn more. For a full up-to-date list of publications, please check my google scholar profile .
A machine learning framework for detecting microlensing events and performing fast, calibrated inference. Designed with upcoming surveys like Roman in mind, it offers a scalable path toward real-time analysis of large astrophysical time-series datasets.
A novel search for terrestrial-mass free-floating planets (FFPs) and rare astrophysical phenomena using data from NASA’s TESS mission.
A comprehensive analysis of the Roman Space Telescope’s potential to detect extended dark matter structures—such as subhalos, boson/axion stars, and halo-dressed primordial black holes—through gravitational microlensing.
Modeling the evolution of "dark" stars to explain black holes in the mass gap using a dark electromagnetism sector.
Investigating how the evaporation of primordial black holes could simultaneously generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry and the present-day dark matter abundance.
Introducing the concept of kinetic recoupling of dark matter and studying the resulting distinctive small-scale signatures that could be probed by future surveys.
Dark Matter Cosmology
Investigating the potential of asteroid-mass primordial black holes as dark matter candidates through microlensing.