I'm a Research Scientist on the Protocols team at Uniswap Labs. My research focuses on decentralized trading systems — including auction design, AMMs, liquidity provision, and execution quality. I bring a physicist's mindset — simplified models, rigorous analysis, and the scientific method — to the evolving landscape of crypto markets.
Background
I received my PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University, where I worked under the supervision of Nima Arkani-Hamed at the Institute for Advanced Study. My research explored how to reconstruct particle physics from its most physical observables: scattering amplitudes. These mathematical objects describe the probabilities of particle collisions — the core predictions of quantum field theory — and yet they can be studied without ever referencing Lagrangians or quantum fields.
Using on-shell methods, I examined how fundamental principles like symmetry, locality, and unitarity can build quantum theories from the ground up, and used these tools to derive aspects of the Standard Model — including the Higgs mechanism — in entirely new ways.
My academic journey began in Trinidad and Tobago, where I received the President's Gold Medal, the nation's highest academic award. I then moved to MIT, graduating with a double major in Physics and Mathematics and a minor in Philosophy. At Princeton, I was awarded the Presidential Fellowship and a GEM Associate Fellowship. This foundation in theoretical physics now informs my work at Uniswap Labs, where I apply similar analytical approaches to decentralized trading systems.
Education & Experience
- Research Scientist, Uniswap Labs, 2022–Present
- PhD Physics, Princeton University, 2023
- MA Physics, Princeton University, 2019
- BSc Physics and Mathematics, MIT, 2017