Precision gravitational-wave astronomy

I was a postdoctoral researcher at the LIGO Laboratory in Pasadena, CA as a part of the gravitational-wave astrophysics group.

• LIGO Scientific Collaboration Management Team member and Co-chair of the LIGO Detector Characterization group
• Lead coordinator of the GWTC-4 catalog of gravitational-wave signals detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration
• Primary developer and organizer for the Data Quality Report software suite used to investigate the potential impact of instrumental artifacts on the detection and analysis of all gravitational-wave events
• Leader in efforts to increase the cross-compatibility of detector characterization software across the global network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
• Principal investigator at Caltech for the Gravity Spy project that combines machine learning and citizen science to analyze LIGO data

I was a doctoral researcher in the Physics Department at Syracuse University.

• Developed the GWsubtract Python package that was used to increase the sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational-wave detector network by 25%
• Lead analyst for the PyCBC search for gravitational-wave signals in LIGO’s second observing run
• Research focuses in data science, signal processing, high-throughput computing, and gravitational-wave astrophysics