I am a computer scientist in an ecology department wearing a physicist hat.
Presently a PhD candidate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, I study the collective movement of fish schools, trying to find unifying principles and patterns that generalise across species and contexts.
Updates
August 2026 | I gave a talk in the Fisher’s Fishes Online Seminar Series on our recent work on guppy population dynamics, and the general philosophy of top-down data-driven modelling. A recording of the talk is here.
July 2026 | Our work, lead by Jahanvi, on the collective movement of mixed species fish is out as a preprint!
May 2026 | Our work on the stochastic population dynamics of Trinidadian guppies is out as a preprint!
Mar 2026 | Our new paper ‘Flocking by stopping: a mechanism for order in collective movement’, led by Yogesh, is now out in Physical Review E! Here is a short blog post about the paper.