Hey there! I'm Avi

I’m an incoming PhD student in physics, driven by a deep concern for global suffering but also by a profound optimism for the extraordinary futures humanity can achieve. I want to use my career to contribute to global well-being and to advancing the scientific frontier. I’m exploring ways to do that in applied physics PhD programs where I can apply machine learning and computational techniques to physics-based research.

Currently, I work on plasma wakefield acceleration and microbunching for x-ray free electron lasers at UCLA's Particle Beam Physics Laboratory.

Before that, I interned at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, where I tracked and modeled atmospheric phenomena on Jupiter, including circumpolar cyclones and folded filamentary regions, using satellite imagery from the Juno mission's JunoCam.

This site is just to store projects and publications, as well as for me to think out loud (blog) occasionally.