| Sep 30, 2025 | Very proud and happy that my first PhD publication - “A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons” is now out in eLife. Please visit the publications section for link to the manuscript. |
| Sep 08, 2025 | I succesfully passed my written qualfying exams with all high passes. One PhD milestone checked :) |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Excited to share that I received a second travel award from the Early-career Social Learning Researchers (ESLR) society for my attendance at the COSMOS summer school! |
| May 20, 2025 | I have been accepted to the Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) summer school in Tokyo, Japan from Sept 29-Oct 3. I am also thankful for receiving a travel award from the generous support of the RIKEN CBS-TOYOTA Collaboration Center. |
| Apr 05, 2025 | I have been selected to present a talk at the Behaviour 2025 conference to be held from Aug 25-30 in Kolkata, India. Very excited to present my work on pigeon navigation there. |
| Dec 20, 2024 | I taught the BIOL 347 Animal Behavior lab for 2 consecutive years now. This year, I introduced two new lab sessions — animal tracking and birding lab to familiarize students with these newer and fun behavioral analysis techniques. |
| Oct 01, 2024 | My student led graduate club SciPie! received the best graduate club award as part of the UMB Beacon leadership awards. |
| Apr 10, 2024 | I have been selected to attend the Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behaviour and Virtual Reality to be held at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal from June 2 - 21, 2024. |
| Oct 27, 2023 | I’m part of the organzing committee of SciPie!, a new intitiative led by graduate students where we meet monthly to explore fresh ideas, troubleshoot research problems and provide support to our peers - all while enjoying pizza slices! |
| Sep 01, 2023 | I start my teaching journey with the undergraduate Animal Behavior Lab at UMB alongside Dr. Albert Kao. |
| Aug 02, 2023 | My Master’s thesis project with Dr. Rati Sharma is out now in Applied Animal Behaviour Science. So proud of this work! |
| May 20, 2023 | I have been selected to attend the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Collective Behavior to be held from Aug 13-18, 2023 in Newry, Maine. |
| Oct 28, 2022 | I gave a talk in the Physics Graduate Club at UMB on “Collective Behavior in Slime Molds - from foraging networks to mapping dark matter”. |
| Sep 01, 2022 | I have started my PhD studies in Dr. Albert Kao’s lab at UMass Boston in understanding collective decision making in animals. |