I am a fifth-year PhD candidate working with Dr. Robb Rutledge at Yale University. My research during the program is supported by NSF GRFP and the Wu Tsai Graduate Student Fellowship.
Before joining the PhD program, I worked as a UI/UX designer for tech startups. As an undergraduate student majoring in behavioral decision science at Brown University, I did summer research assistantships at the Personality Measurement and Development Lab at Washington University in St. Louis and the Affective Brain Lab at UCL.
My research examines how the brain’s dopaminergic and basal ganglia circuits shape decision-making, with particular focus on habit-like biases and the way phasic dopamine signals track surprising or unexpected events. I combine behavioral experiments with computational modeling, and use pharmacological manipulations (L-DOPA) and deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease patients to establish causal links between these circuits and behavior.