Gurugram, India · 28.46° N
Physicist in training / Founder / Stargazer
I work on the physics of the invisible — dark-matter signatures in rare B-meson decays, and the night sky we're losing to light pollution.
The bright stars are the real winter sky over Gurugram, 28.5° N — every star brighter than magnitude 5 is drawn from the Yale Bright Star Catalog; the faintest are a statistical fill. Drag to see what the streetlights erased. If you allow it, your own sky is estimated automatically from one tile of a public light-pollution atlas — your position stays in your browser — and the button brings you back to it.
Every bright star is real — Yale Bright Star Catalog. Drag to replay the sky; your own is estimated automatically from a public light-pollution atlas, and the button brings you back to it.
This is the sky Gurugram should have. I'm working on getting it back.
scroll to bring back the night
Three papers at three stages: one peer-reviewed and published, two preprints. The detail belongs in the papers themselves — each entry links to its source.
hep-ph · preprint
astro-ph · Journal of High Energy Astrophysics (Elsevier) · 2026 · peer-reviewed
citizen science · preprint · March 2026
I'm a Class 12 student at Amity International School, Gurugram, and I do two kinds of physics. In the first, I calculate how dark fermions — matter no experiment has ever seen — would leave fingerprints on the angular observables of rare B-meson decays. In the second, I measure something disappearing in plain sight: the night sky itself.
The kids learning astronomy on Astrophy — my app — can't see stars from their Gurugram rooftops anymore. So I started measuring what they're missing: first for myself, with a smartphone and an idea, then for anyone who wanted to contribute, with a platform I called SkyQI. One app measures the problem. The other keeps the wonder alive despite it.
Away from physics, I serve as my school's Head Girl, play classical piano, and compete at badminton.
This season
Grand Award, Physics & Astronomy
Regeneron ISEF 2026, Phoenix AZ — category PHYS052, as part of Team India
Patent application, sole inventor
Indian application 202611013909 · provisional, filed Feb 2026
Research papers
one peer-reviewed & published — Journal of High Energy Astrophysics (Elsevier), sole author · one sole-authored preprint, Zenodo · one first-authored preprint, arXiv
Active users on Astrophy
This year, across 10+ countries — reached mostly through organic search
Sky readings contributed to SkyQI
From 61 countries, by 275 registered contributors
Inner-city sky
Class 9 · 3.5 mag
Pristine
Class 1 · 7.8 mag
Fig. — The Bortle scale spans nine classes, from pristine dark sky (1) to inner-city sky (9). Limiting magnitudes here are illustrative; actual visibility varies with observing conditions.
Three projects, one problem: the disappearing night sky. One measures it, one keeps the wonder alive despite it, and one argues about it in public.
Founder & Developer
Point a phone at the night sky, and computer vision reads how much of it is left — a Bortle-scale measurement anyone can contribute to a global map.
As of September 2026, 2,000+ people have used the site and 940+ the app; 275 registered contributors have submitted 562 sky readings from 61 countries · patent filed · sole-authored preprint · Google Play · App Store · skyqi.in
Founder & Technical Lead
Free astronomy learning for young stargazers — interactive courses, quizzes, streaks, and daily space discoveries, live on Google Play and the App Store.
1,258 active users this year · 10+ countries — reached mostly through organic search
Writer
Essays on light pollution, astronomy access, and citizen science — the public-advocacy arm of the same fight.
Substack · publishing since Jan 2026
Grand Award — Fourth Place, Physics & Astronomy · Regeneron ISEF
The International Science and Engineering Fair, Phoenix AZ — category PHYS052, as part of Team India · in the press: Hindustan
Gold Medal · IRIS National Science Fair
India's national fair — earned selection to Team India for ISEF
Gold Honour, Final Round · International Physics Competition
iPhyC — a written theory olympiad, not a project fair
Gold Honour, Final Round · International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition
iAAC — the astronomy counterpart to iPhyC, in the same written-round format
AIME Qualifier · via AMC 10B
top ~5% of AMC competitors
Also
Runners Up, International Space Settlement Design Competition (2025), after Winner at the Indian Nationals (2024) and Runners Up at the Asian Regional (2025) · Honourable Mention, Bose Beamline Challenge (2025) · National Winner, ATL Marathon, Atal Tinkering Labs, Government of India, for an automatic fall-detection system (2023) · Winner, Global Sustainability Awards (2023) · Finalist, top 100, IRIS National Science Fair (2023) · Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award, IRIS (2021).
Head Girl
Amity International School, Sector 46, Gurugram · Jan 2026 —
The school's top student post — the end of a four-year arc that began as a middle-school House Captain, through House Prefect and Vice Head Girl.
Founder & President
Parallax Physics Society · 2026–27
Founded the school's physics society — not a member of one that existed, the person who made it exist.
Head of Department, Operations
Cygna Space Society · Apr 2025 —
Ran operations for three national and international space-settlement design competition cycles; trains and interviews new inductees.
Also
TEDxYouth@AIS-46
On the TEDx organizing committee, where I independently sourced and negotiated the event's corporate sponsorship from Dr Lal PathLabs.
Trinity College London examinations — four consecutive grades with Distinction (Initial through Grade 3), Grade 4 in progress. In February 2026 I performed at the British Council, Delhi, for the RSL All-India Meet — including an Interstellar arrangement, fittingly.
Competed at the National Badminton Ranking Championship, Panchkula (2023); state runners-up twice in Jammu & Kashmir; SGFI district winner. The training transfers: footwork, patience, and playing the long rally.