Max Isi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech in 2018. Before joining Columbia, he was a NASA Einstein Fellow at MIT, and a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics in NYC. He is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA Consortium. Max's research focuses on gravitational-wave astronomy and black holes, including: measurements of black-hole spins, the populations of compact objects, black-hole spectroscopy, cosmology with gravitational waves, and machine learning methods for data analysis.