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.

My publications can be found on google scholar.