How do animals use their senses acquire and interpret information about the world? How do the neural networks that make up animal brains integrate these sensory inputs with internal feedback and make decisions? And how are these decisions ultimately translated into behavior? I am interested in how brains represent information from sensory modalities, and how these sensory representations inform behavior and decision-making. I pursue these questions experimentally in model organisms by developing techniques for measuring whole-brain neural activity, and by employing connectome analyses, behavioral qunatification, and computational modeling to contextualize and interpret neural data.

I earned my A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 2015, with a certificate in Biophysics. My undergraduate research focused on visualizing mRNA transcription in vivo and studying the information capacity of patterning gene networks in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

In received my Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2021. At Harvard, I studied the compact nervous system of the nematode worm C. elegans. Much experimental work in neuroscience has taken one of two approaches: recording either from single labeled neurons or large populations of unlabeled neurons. It has been my goal to pursue biological and technological approaches which will help bridge these scales of inquiry. I have developed methods for recording and analyzing whole-brain activity, and used these methods to study chemosensory ensemble responses, build tools for deterministic pan-neuronal landmarking, and compare functional activity to the C. elegans connectome.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Physics of Biological Function at Princeton University. I am working on employing whole-brain imaging approches to understand multisensory integration in the fruit fly.

I enjoy collaborating on interdisciplinary projects and strive to be an open scientist. I think that we do our best work when we communicate and collaborate with experts in many fields. Many of my research projects have been conducted in close collaboration with other groups in a range of disciplines, from molecular biology and neuroscience to physics theory and computer science.