Hello! 👋

I am a senior majoring in Mathematics and Data Science with a minor in Cognitive Science at Northwestern University. I am passionate for applying mathematics and machine learning in theoretical and computational neuroscience, and hope to use my skills to learn more about how the brain operates. Currently, I am working on my thesis on neural encoding of zebrafish tail locomotion using biologically relevant recurrent neural networks as an undergraduate researcher in the Fitzgerald Lab at Northwestern.

Through my coursework here at Northwestern, I’ve developed a strong skillset in Python, matlab, and R. I also hold a passion in data visualization, and have applied my skills through data dashboards for Chicagoland education non-profit Project SYNCERE and weather data interactives which received first place at Northwestern’s research symposium. Having served as a teaching assistant in both the Data Science and Math departments, I enjoy helping a variety of students in tutoring roles to make STEM topics more accessible and easy to understand. In the past, I’ve researched through the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science at Northwestern into methods of classifying mysterious infrasound signals, and under their advisory I’ve developed my own mathematical algorithm to improve signal recovery programs of analogue seismograms such as SKATE.

On the side, I enjoy music, sports, film editing, satirical news writing, and linguistics, and in my free time I like to cook, watch movies, build LEGO sets, and take pictures of sunsets.