About Me

I am a PhD candidate in my 5th year at the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science at the Courant Institute at New York University, advised by Prof. Ed Gerber. I am a mathematician by training, working on applications in atmospheric modelling. Before coming to Courant, I completed my B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science at MIT.

My research is on sparse signal estimation for gravity waves. Since gravity waves are difficult to observe and their spectra are poorly constrained, I am attempting to recover spectra of gravity waves from wave momentum deposition in high-resolution simulations. We intend to use this spectrum data to inform gravity wave parameterizations. Mathematically, this is a high-dimensional function-estimation inverse problem, where we invert the nonlinear mapping between wave flux and momentum deposition to find the flux density over wave space.