Computational Astrophysics · SDSU
Stars shape the universe. I build the models — and the software — to understand how.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Astronomy and a computational astrophysicist at San Diego State University. I build differentiable models of stars and star clusters — and the Jaxstro software that connects them to observations and inference.
What I'm building now
A single connected program
Research questions, scientific software, and teaching are not separate boxes — they are one effort to understand how stars shape the universe.
Differentiable cluster inference
The Jaxstro pipeline — asking what survey data can truly recover about star clusters.
The IMF, done honestly
When ignoring unresolved binaries makes population inference confidently wrong.
Collisional dynamics in JAX
gravax: resolving close stellar encounters exactly, at cluster scale.
Glass-box teaching tools
Cosmic Playground and learner-centered documentation for real computational science.