I’m an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. I am interested in binary stars, black holes, and related stellar exotica. My group uses a combination of large-scale surveys, targeted observations of individual objects, and theoretical stellar evolution calculations to better understand how these objects form, evolve, and interact with their surroundings. I am also interested in Milky Way stellar populations, galaxy formation, and statistical astronomy. Most generally, I like exploring astronomical datasets, learning new things, and developing methods to extract information from data. I have been called the “black hole destroyer” but am working to make my net black hole count positive.