வணக்கம்!

Who am I?

A fifth-year graduate student at UChicago and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. I did my undergrad at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!), and spent the eighteen years prior to that growing up in a coastal city in South India. I pronounce my name just the way it is written (Da-ya An-buh-jug-uh-ne). My full name in the Tamil script is written as தயா அன்பழகன். The phrase தயா is a Sanskrit word for compassion, and அன்பழகன் is derived from the Tamil word for beauty and affection.

What do I do?

My main research program is focused on answering the following question: “What happened in the first moments after the Big Bang?” I build new datasets and modelling tools to answer this question from different avenues, to build up a more coherent and robust picture. Go here for a bit more detail about what I work on.

Looking for something?

I’ve built a couple of tools and datasets that are in use by the community. If you got here in search of those, take a look at the code tab and the data tab.

Get in touch!

If you’re looking to contact me, you can find me at dhayaa at uchicago dot edu. If you’re on a common slack workspace (the LSST one is quite bit ;)) just send me a message!