Amresh Verma
Amresh Verma

PhD candidate in cosmology, Ariel University

I work on what the early Universe left behind in gravitational waves, and on how much of it we can actually read off the data.

My advisor is Ido Ben-Dayan, and most of my papers sit at the inference end of a problem: take a signal, the pulsar-timing background NANOGrav reported in 2023, the DESI baryon-acoustic distances, the Planck lensing amplitude, and ask which early-Universe models survive it. I write the pipelines myself, mostly in JAX, and I care about the statistics as much as the physics. I defend in late 2026.

Two things I have built are public. hd-pta is a package for pulsar-timing-array detection analysis. The narrowing universe is a visual history of how cosmological constraints tightened over thirty years, drawn from the published chains. A separate page collects my quantitative-finance and machine-learning work.

Papers

  1. Slowly rolling on a quantum correction with I. Ben-Dayan and A. Srivastava · arXiv:2608.25004 · 2026, submitted
  2. The PTA–CMB tension and bounds on extra radiation from early-Universe models with I. Ben-Dayan and U. Kumar · JHEAp 50, 100510 · 2026
  3. Cosmological constraints on non-cold dark matter from DESI DR2 measurements with U. Kumar and A. Ajith · Phys. Lett. B · arXiv:2504.14419 · 2026
  4. Impact of low ℓ's on large-scale structure anomalies JCAP 02, 069 · 2025
  5. Gravitational-wave background in bouncing models from semi-classical, quantum and string gravity JCAP 09, 058 · 2024
  6. Probing the early Universe cosmology with NANOGrav: possibilities and limitations Phys. Rev. D 108, 103507 · 2023

Full list on INSPIRE and Google Scholar.

Background

2023–
PhD, physics, Ariel University. Thesis: Phenomenological aspects of cosmology.
2020–22
MSc, physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
2017–20
BSc, physics, West Bengal State University.

Contact

Email
amreshcosmo@gmail.com
Office
Building 20, room 2.26, Ariel University
Elsewhere
GitHub, LinkedIn