I am an Associate Professor in Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. My research focuses on understanding how stars like our Sun form. I perform computer simulations of the turbulent birth environment of stars, and I use these to make predictions for what telescopes will observe: "synthetic observations." This work has broader implications for the evolution of galaxies and the initial conditions of planetary systems.

I am Director of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins. I am a core faculty member in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for Scientific Machine Learning. I am also a member of the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability  and the Machine Learning Laboratory.

Before joining the faculty at UT Austin, I was a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale, an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I received an NSF CAREER Award in 2017 and a Cottrell Scholar Award in 2018.