Hello! I am a cellular and systems neuroscientist seeking to map mathematical theories of learning and decision making to their cellular, circuit, and synaptic basis in the mammalian brain. To do so, I combine advanced data analysis and modeling with cutting edge electrophysiological, optical, and molecular genetic tools in mice. I am currently applying these approaches to reveal the neural circuit basis of temporal difference learning and time discounting in the dopamine system.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Naoshige Uchida at Harvard University. I received my Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University in 2019, where I was mentored by Lisa Giocomo, where I researched how landmarks and self-motion combine to produce the brain’s internal maps of space.