ABOUT ME
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Computational Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, having completed my Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. I have always been interested in how complex human cognition emerges from basic neurobiology. I am particularly interested in dissecting the brain circuits underlying human decision-making and emotion, and how they affect memory -- particularly in psychiatric disorders.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
How does human cognition bias memory?
We tend to remember rewarding and emotionally important experiences better than anything else. Using rigorous behavioral experiments and computational modeling approaches, I hope to untangle how, exactly these aspects of human cognition influence what and how we remember. This is of particular importance to understanding how psychiatric disorders, which can impair value- and emotional- processing, might impact memory.
2015 - 2020
Columbia University in the City of New York
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
2009 - 2013
University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology
B.A., Cognitive Science
Electrophysiology of human cognition and memory
Can we bridge these behavioral and computational findings with human brain recordings to understand the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making, emotion, and their relation to memory? In particular, I hope to translate intracranial electrophysiological biomarkers of human cognition into actionable insights for addressing cognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders.