Vedant seeks to understand the evolution of the Milky Way and the physical nature of dark matter using techniques spanning observations, simulations, and instrumentation. During his PhD at Harvard University, he led wide-field spectroscopic surveys to dynamically map the Milky Way on its largest scales and reconstruct its assembly history. As the deputy project scientist for the Via Project, Vedant is developing a new multiplexed spectroscopic instrument and survey to measure the influence of dark matter substructure on the velocities of faint halo stars.