Neuroscience

My first passion was psychology and neuroscience. I pursued my PhD at Stanford with Russ Poldrack. I used large-scale individual difference studies to understand how psychological measurements relate and how well we can predict real-world behaviors. The goal of my work was the development of a Neurocognitive Ontology that integrates many psychological disciplines and provides a framework for an improved cumulative science, which you can read all about in my dissertation, Uncovering Mental Structure through Data-Driven Ontology Discovery (if you have lots of time), or read a little about in this paper.

Previous to working at Stanford I was a research assistant at the NIMH in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition under Alex Martin. There I investigated atypical brain structure in ASD and related individual structural characteristics with differential expression of repetitive behavior symptoms.

During my undergraduate studies at Brown University, I worked in the Laboratory of Neural Computation and Cognition with James Cavanagh under Michael Frank. My research used EEG to uncover neural correlates of decision making.