cv
a summary: employment, education, publication rankings and advising. The full curriculum vitae, including teaching, honors, invited talks and outreach, is available as a PDF below.
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Employment
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2025– Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy, Columbia University -
2025– Associate Research Scientist
Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute -
2021–2025 Flatiron Research Fellow
Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute -
2019–2021 NASA Einstein Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education
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2019 Pasadena, CA
Ph.D. in Physics
California Institute of Technology Thesis advisor: Alan J. Weinstein. -
2014 Los Angeles, CA
B.S. in Physics and Mathematics
Loyola Marymount University Thesis advisor: Jonas R. Mureika. Trustee Scholarship; summa cum laude.
Publication rankings
Citable records on INSPIRE-HEP; the first number includes the 192 LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration papers, the second excludes them. Updated October 26, 2026.
Advising and mentoring
Current group
- Postdoctoral researchers (4): Konstantin Leyde, Asad Hussain, Jack Heinzel, Simona Miller.
- Graduate students (3): Abigail Moran, Ana Lam, Lauren Mendoza.
- Undergraduate students (4): Tata Tirapongprasert, Sarah Yuh, Candice Wu, Nathaniel Rodgers.
Co-mentored before joining Columbia
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Graduate students (16)
- MIT: Ken Ng, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Yiwen Huang
- Caltech: Simona Miller, Ethan Payne, Jacob Golomb, Rhiannon Udall, Keefe Mitman
- Columbia: Harrison Siegel
- Stony Brook: Soumendra Roy, Nicole Khusid
- Princeton: Hengrui Zhu
- Minnesota: Haowen Zhong
- Monash: Teagan Clarke
- UT Austin: Asad Hussain
- Montréal: Ronan Legin
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Undergraduate students (7)
- Caltech: Carl Fields, Eve Chase, Praful Vasireddyi, Jake Mattinson
- MIT: Nishat Protyasha, Claire Williams
- Chinese University of Hong Kong: Thomas Ng