Awards and Recognition
2017 Orange County’s 100 Most Influential, Orange County Register, [link]
2017 American Astronomical Society Bruno Rossi Prize, 1/1000 awardees from LIGO Team, [link]
2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, 1/1000 awardees from LIGO, [link]
2016 Outstanding Untenured Faculty Member, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, CSUF
2016 Orange County’s 100 Most Influential, Orange County Register, [link]
2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize, 1/1000 awardees from the LIGO Discovery Team, [link]
2016 Special Breakthrough Prize, 1/1000 awardees from the LIGO Contributors, [link]
2015 Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, [link]
2014 40 Under 40, OC Metro Magazine, [link]
2013 NSF CAREER Award, [link]

Research Interests
Experimental gravitational-wave physics and astronomy; Gravitational-wave detector optics;
Optical metrology; Optical interference coatings; Scientific computing and infrastructure