I am a third-year PhD student 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 focuses on two key areas: (1) understanding the role of dopamine in decision-making under uncertainty, and (2) exploring how mood disorders such as anxiety affect risky decision-making. To investigate these questions, I analyze data from Parkinson’s Disease patients who are treated with dopaminergic medications or deep brain stimulation (DBS) and use computational modeling techniques to interpret their behavior.