Group

Current group at Caltech

Domani Sharkey (undergrad, working on eROSITA and X-ray binaries)
Cheyanne Shariat (1st year grad, working on triple evolution)
Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee (2nd year grad, working on hot stars, co-advised with Shri Kulkarni)
Lisa Blomberg (2nd year grad, working on helium star binaries)
Natsuko Yamaguchi (3rd year grad, working on white dwarf binaries)
Pranav Nagarajan (3rd year grad, working on stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars)
Antonio Rodriguez (5th year grad, working on accreting white dwarfs, co-advised with Shri Kulkarni)

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)
Maude Gull (grad student at Berkeley, working on metal-poor massive stars)
Kevin Burdge (postdoc at MIT, working on ultracompact binaries)



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