I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. My research is at the intersection of formal and phenomenological questions in high energy physics. I am additionally interested in applications of AI methods in high energy physics.
Before this, I was an INFN fellow, jointly at Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) Pisa and INFN Pisa, Italy. I completed my PhD in high energy Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
I am a member of the GRASP initiative, the Harvard Swampland initiative, and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).
I am currently interested in the early Universe dynamics in strongly coupled beyond the standard model theories and their extra-dimensional duals. I frequently use bottom up holography and AdS/CFT to model strong dynamics. There are several non-perturbative phenomena special to strong coupling, which present fruitful theoretical challenges and a plethora of observational signals. Currently I am working on two such aspects. The first is about a confining sector undergoing a deconfinement to confinement phase transition in the early universe, and its possible gravitational wave signals. The second is about non-Gaussianities coming from strongly coupled sectors active during inflation.
I am also interested in applications of AI methods in high energy physics. My work in this direction includes developing interpretable and robust algorithms for anomaly detection and jet tagging in collider data, with an eye toward discovering signals of physics beyond the Standard Model in a model-agnostic way.