I’ve been a faculty member at Michigan since 1998. I’m a solar system astronomer who uses telescopes on the ground and in space to study small body populations from Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids to the Kuiper Belt and beyond. Using the power of machine learning techniques to extract these very distant, faint objects from deep images, my collaborators and I have discovered hundreds of new solar system objects, several of which have been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it traverses the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto. I discovered the possible dwarf planet 2014 UZ224, nicknamed DeeDee, which at the time of its discovery was the second-most-distant known object in the solar system, at over three times Neptune’s distance from the sun. Growing up under dark skies in Ohio, I fell in love with astronomy. I am passionate about communicating the excitement of science with people of all ages, and have received the University of Michigan’s highest award for excellence in undergraduate education, an Arthur F. Thurnau professorship. In my spare time, I enjoy cycling, homebrewing, beekeeping, and playing with my retrievers, Rupert and Junie Bee.