Investigation of the formation and evolution of compact binary populations, utilizing iterative inference and astrophysically motivated models to disentangle various formation channels.

Research Topics

• Population Inference: Wysocki et al., “Reconstructing phenomenological distributions of compact binaries via gravitational wave observations”
• AGN Disk Models: Gayathri et al., “Gravitational Wave Source Populations: Disentangling an AGN Component”
• Simulation-Based Inference: Delfavero et al., “Iteratively Comparing Gravitational-Wave Observations to the Evolution of Massive Stellar Binaries”

Impact

• Introduced iterative inference for compact binary populations.
• Advanced new AGN disk models for the formation of binary black holes.