I am a professor of physics at Texas Tech University, and was a professor of physics at Penn State. I am a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration working mainly on continuous waves data analysis and the occasional bit of theory related to astrophysical guidance for and interpretation of observational results. Every now and then I do some work related to compact binaries and bursts too.

I was a postdoc with Bruce Allen at UW Milwaukee, and before that at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. I was a grad student at Caltech with Kip Thorne, back in the days when we were all looking ahead to figure out how LIGO data analysis would work. I was an undergrad at Sonoma State University in California, where I did a little radio and infrared astronomy with Lynn Cominsky and Gordon Spear.