Gravitational waves are our newest window to look into the universe.
Currently we observe only the most extreme events - The merging of compact objects (black holes / neutron stars) through gravitational wave emission.
Together with my international collaborators (the groups of Matias Zaldariagga, Tejaswi Venumadhav and Liang Dai), my group takes part in a world leading effort to exploit the LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA data-set in searching for compact binary coalescence and in studying the population and formation mechanism of Binary black holes.
We are currently focusing on developing maximally sensitive search algorithms to search for precessing systems, currently an open problem.
We are also pushing the analysis sensitivity for "Regular" binary black holes towards maximum sensitivity, with the past success of doubling the number of detected binary black holes in the second observing run of LIGO-VIRGO (O2).