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 and memory systems–particularly, the hippocampus, MTL cortex, and basal ganglia. I am working to experimentally test and model the computations performed by these systems across diverse learning- and memory-related behaviors (and across species!).

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 work with my former and current colleagues to translate neuroscientific insights into restorative approaches to harm, and to critically examine the relationship between (neuro)science and social justice.