He is a member of the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, and played a significant role in the LIGO discovery of gravitational waves. He is a gravitational wave astronomer, numerical and analytical relativist, and data analyst. His research focuses mainly on understanding the dynamics of compact binaries, which are systems composed of any combination of black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs. Through numerical simulations and analytical modeling, he studies the behavior of these highly dense objects, which stretch Einstein’s theory of general relativity to its limit. He was also a theatre performer in his younger days, and wrote and will perform in the series of Danced Lectures.