I am a Ph.D. student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where I’m co-advised by Josh McDermott and Ila Fiete.
Broadly, I am interested in the interaction between perception and memory for natural quantities, particularly sounds like speech and music. I work on characterizing the representations that underlie recognition memory using various experimental methods and modeling approaches, with the goal of understanding why some things are memorable and some are forgettable, why people remember things they did not experience, how our perception is affected by our long term memories, and, ultimately, why human memory is the way it is.
Previously, I studied Computer Science, Cognitive Sciences, and Mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Central Florida. During undergrad, I collaborated with Dr. Rob Kass at Carnegie Mellon University, and with Josh McDermott.
In my free time, I enjoy biking, baking, playing instruments like the alto saxophone and bass, and film photography. I’m an avid collector of records and also host a bi-weekly radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station.