I study the emergence of quantum states of matter where strong interactions and long-ranged entanglement play essential roles. Of special interest to me are (1) exotic topological phases, such as fractional quantum Hall and topological insulators, and (2) strongly correlated gapless quantum matter, such as quantum phase transitions and non-Fermi liquid metals. In the past, my interests led me to work on problems motivated by a broad range of material systems, ranging from disordered superconducting films to fractional quantum Hall systems to graphene multilayers. Some highlights of my past work include constructing a controlled theory of the dirty superfluid-insulator transition, developing non-perturbative constraints on non-Fermi liquid transport using constraints from emergent symmetries and anomalies, and predicting the appearance of an anomalous composite Fermi liquid phase in moiré TMD systems at zero magnetic field. Motivated by remarkable recent experiments in moiré materials, much of my present work focuses on understanding the emergence of fractionalization -- when the effective degrees of freedom of a system have charge and statistics which are fractions of those of an electron -- in two-dimensional materials. In particular, I am trying to understand the interplay of fractionalized phases with more conventional states of matter, like metals and charge ordered phases, with the goal of establishing a global phase diagram.

Education

2020: PhD. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

2015: B.S. Physics, Stanford University

Professional Background

2024 -- present: Assistant Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 

2023 — 2024: Kadanoff Fellow, University of Chicago 

2020 — 2023: Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology