I'm a neuroscientist working in clinical neuromodulation and brain-computer interfaces. I have expertise in signal processing, statistics, computational modeling, neurophysiology, neurostimulation, and neuroethics. My research with Drs. Simon Little and Philip Starr focuses on the neural mechanisms of reward learning and decision making and their role in psychiatric symptoms like depression, anxiety, and apathy in Parkinson's disease. My current work uses chronic intracranial recordings during longitudinal, at-home behavioral assessments to understand how deep brain stimulation and dopaminergic therapies for motor symptoms affect cognition and emotion. My long-term goal is to develop neurostimulation therapies to improve mental health across neuropsychiatric conditions. To align my research with the needs of patients, clinicians, and other affected communities, I also study the ethical and societal implications of neuroscience and neurotechnology with Dr. Winston Chiong at UCSF and as a Fellow at the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at UC Berkeley.

I graduated in 2012 from Hendrix College with a BA in Neuroscience before spending two years as a postbaccalaureate researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health working on functional MRI methods. In 2021, I graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in Neuroscience, during which I studied cognitive control, learning, and emotion using scalp EEG and intracranial brain recordings from epilepsy patients.