I am a Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Riverside, and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, where I currently serve as Co-Chair of the Detector Characterization group. I completed my Ph.D. in Physics at Louisiana State University and was a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Kavli Institute, working within the LIGO Laboratory, from 2021 to 2025.

LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is a network of detectors searching for gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime produced by extreme astrophysical events. LIGO made the first direct detection of a gravitational wave in 2015, a discovery recognized with the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. More information on LIGO is here.

My research bridges gravitational-wave physics and artificial intelligence, using computer vision, machine learning, signal processing, and statistical analysis to identify and reduce instrumental noise in detector data and improve the sensitivity of the LIGO detectors. I develop and maintain software tools used across the collaboration for noise analysis and classification, and I also work on technologies for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors. Alongside my research, I am committed to undergraduate teaching and mentorship, and I am currently seeking a faculty position where I can build a research group that brings students into this work from the ground up.