Recent news

• I will be defending my thesis work September 26th. If you are interested in attending please reach out and I can share the details for in-person or Zoom attendance.
• Thank you so much to Dr. Najafi for the invitaion to present at the Systems, Behavioral, and Computational Neuroscience Journal Club at Georgia Institute of Technology. My talk can be seen here.
• I am excited to share my recent publication in Neuron, Motor cortex is responsible for motoric dynamics in striatum and the execution of both skilled and unskilled actions. We asked what forelimb motor cortex contributes to striatal and behavioral dynamics using joystick tasks and lesions. If you are interested or want to chat about the work, please reach out!

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About me

I'm a PhD candidate in the Yttri Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests are centered on how the brain makes decisions and how those decisions can be executed via movement.

I have previously trained with Dr. Betsy Murray at the National Institute of Mental Health studying cortical and subcortical contributions to learning, value and decision making. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience where I trained with Dr. Sandra Kuhlman (current faculty at University of Buffalo) studying functional plasticity in the visual cortex.

I am passionate about scientific education and outreach. Both in lab and in the classroom I try to get students to master the material by learning to solve the problem at hand. From 2022 to 2024, I was the course instructor for Advanced Systems Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon.

Outside of science I enjoy cooking, watching and playing soccer and playing with my dog Woody.