Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy 
Research areas include:
- The study of the birth, life, and death of stars
- Interstellar matter
- Gravitational lenses
- Morphological classification of near-infrared stellar spectra
- The use of artificial neural networks in astronomical problems
- Radiative transfer in non-LTE, turbulent plasmas with discontinuous flows
- Observational and statistical studies of star formation