About Me

Hello! I’m a PhD student in Columbia University’s Psychology Department and Zuckerman Institute. Advised by Daphna Shohamy, I study the brain’s multiple learning systems, how they are shaped by our environments, and how they cooperate to guide adaptive behavior. Specifically, I am working to build experimental and theoretical bridges across tasks, measurements, and species to understand the domain-general computations performed by the hippocampus, MTL cortex, and basal ganglia during lifelike behavior.

I completed my undergraduate degree at Stanford University. Advised by Anthony Wagner and tyler bonnen, I studied how biases in our perceptual and memory systems distinctly contribute to race-related bias in our memories. I then worked in the Poldrack Lab with Patrick Bissett, collecting large-scale fMRI datasets on cognitive control tasks and studying how inter-individual structure in functional control networks can be recovered with functional alignment and shared response models.

Previously, I have worked as an investigator, legal assistant, and data scientist at several public interest and community law centers (Habeas Corpus Resource Center, Asian Law Caucus, UnCommon Law). I believe that insights from neuroscience and psychology can guide and inspire more restorative approaches to harm and suffering, and I work with my former colleagues to find ways to do so.

I also play the trumpet–you can find upcoming shows and recent videos on instagram!