Group

Current group at Caltech

Cheyanne Shariat (2nd year grad, working on triple evolution)
Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee (3rd year grad, working on hot stars, co-advised with Shri Kulkarni)
Lisa Blomberg (3rd year grad, working on helium star binaries)
Natsuko Yamaguchi (4th year grad, working on white dwarf binaries)
Pranav Nagarajan (4th year grad, working on stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars)
Maude Gull (Caltech/Carnegie Brinson Fellow, working on metal-poor massive stars)
Geoffrey Mo (Caltech/Carnegie Brinson Fellow, working on binaries in clusters, SNe Ia, and instrumentation)

Former group members

Antonio Rodriguez (PhD 2025, working on accreting white dwarfs, co-advised with Shri Kulkarni; now Harvard postdoc)
Domani Sharkey (SURF 2024, worked on eROSITA and X-ray binaries; now UIUC postbacc)

Frequent collaborators worldwide

Casey Lam (postdoc at Carnegie, working on non-accreting black holes)
Rhys Seeburger (grad student at MPIA/Heidelberg, working on binaries, spectral disentangling)
Johanna Müller-Horn (grad student at MPIA/Heidelberg, working on binaries, clusters, BHs)
Ben Pennell (grad student at MPIA/Heidelberg, working on binaries, planets, population modeling)
Kevin Burdge (postdoc at MIT, working on ultracompact binaries)



Here is some general advice and expectations for students interested in joining the group.