About Ajay

I grew up genuinely curious about everything - science olympiads, mock trial, building things, taking things apart. That restlessness never really went away. It just found better outlets.

Music has always been the other half. I co-direct Old NasSoul, Princeton's R&B and Soul a cappella group - and before that I was building music production projects as a teenager, learning what it means to create something from nothing. There's more overlap between making a track and running an experiment than most people think.

Outside of the lab and studio, I'm usually moving. Snowboarding in the winter, hiking when the weather's right, golf whenever I can get out. I love to travel - new places have a way of resetting how you think. I've been across India more times than I can count, all over the US, through parts of Europe, and seventeen days doing field research in Laikipia, Kenya - flying drones over Grevy's zebra herds at dawn - is probably the most alive I've ever felt. Still a lot of world left. Next stop: Patagonia, Chile. And when I'm not doing any of that, I'm with my friends, which honestly matters just as much as any of it.

I have a dog. He's the best part of going home.