My research pursuits lie within the areas of F-theory and M-theory. In the former, my research has focused on understanding geometric aspects of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds related to the presence of additional U(1) symmetries in F-theory compactifications. With regards to the M-theory, I am interested in compactifications of the M5-brane theory down to various dimensions and how the lower dimensional theories can be used to understand aspects of three- and four-manifolds, and the conjectured 4d－2d correspondence.