Rachel Ouyang is a rising senior at the University of Chicago. With a particular interest in the physics of the early universe, she is drawn to studying these questions from both cosmology and high-energy perspectives. Currently, she is focusing on exploring cosmological correlators on toy models to understand how underlying structural features constrain their form. She plans to continue in this direction to probe the origin of large-scale structure from primordial perturbations. Earlier in her undergrads, she joined Professor Scott Dodelson's group and worked on field-level inference in the cosmic microwave background. As her training in physics and math progresses, she has increasingly shifted toward theoretical approaches.