I'm fascinated by the eyes and what they reveal about our perception!

I'm an incoming PhD student in Dr. Timothy Brady's Visual and Memory Lab at UC San Diego. Currently, I'm a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Dr. Peter Bandettini's lab, where I'm investigating how we can control pupil size in real time to improve our perception. Previously, I built decoding pipelines for BCIs as a Simons Foundation Fellow under Dr. Sergey Stavisky, and investigated visual perception at the University of Oxford advised by Dr. Hannah Smithson.

I completed my Bachelor's in Cognitive Science from UC Davis in 2 years. And spent most of that time in research labs, learning as much as I could about eye-tracking, EEG, and visual cognition.

Plyfaa Suwanamalik-Murphy
NIH/NIMH IRP Fellows’ Scientific Training Day 2025