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Neurosurgery Resident

University of Chicago Medicine

• Diving into residency excited to learn and contribute to the field of neurosurgery, with a focus on brain-computer interfaces and neurotechnology for neuropsychiatric applications.

Developing an ultrasonic brain-computer interface

California Institute of Technology

• Advisors: Richard Andersen and Mikhail Shapiro
• Demonstrated online, closed-loop control for 8 target directions in nonhuman primates.
• Begun translating into humans with ultrasound transparent (“sonolucent”) cranial implants.

Elucidating neural pathways of reward, risk, salience, attention, and value in rhesus macaque monkeys

National Eye Institute

• Advisor: Dr. Okihide Hikosaka

Eye-head coordination as a biomarker for recovery from traumatic brain injuries

Whitman College

• Advisor: Dr. Thomas Knight

M.D.

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Ph.D. in Biology

California Institute of Technology

• Advisors: Dr. Richard Andersen and Dr. Mikhail Shapiro
• Thesis: “Listening to the Internal Representation of Actions Within the Posterior Parietal Cortex.”
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B.A.

Whitman College

• cum laude
• Majors: Applied Mathematics; (Honors) Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology

Josephine De Karman Fellowship

1-year dissertation year fellowship.

NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA F30)

National Eye Institute

4-year graduate fellowship to better elucidate the functional organization of posterior parietal cortex.

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship

Awarded in 2021, but declined in favor of the NIH NRSA. 3-year graduate fellowship to elucidate the neuronal circuits involved in cognitive and motor decisions and to leverage these circuits to improve the accuracy and flexibility of brain computer interfaces for medical applications.