An asteroid impact is the only natural disaster we have the technology to prevent. But to prevent an impact, we’d need time–ideally decades– to prepare. Therefore, we must discover all of the potentially hazardous asteroids now.
At Olin, I work with students to find asteroids, and develop open-source software that will help other people find asteroids. We experiment with the best ways to find asteroids using machine learning.
Here’s my CV.