I'm fascinated by the eyes and what they reveal about our cognitive state.
Four years investigating this at NIH, Oxford, and UC Davis. Now building Avelis, Inc.
I would like to end with this thought: that when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.
Outside the Lab
Browser focus tool. MediaPipe FaceMesh gaze tracking, three-step calibration, 10-second distraction threshold. React, Vite, TypeScript, no server.
UGC content for Rodeo, founded by former Hinge execs. Drove 150K+ TikTok views in 2 weeks, starting with no prior social media experience.
Directory and map for free matchbooks in San Francisco. Built because people on TikTok kept asking for one.
Price-drop tracker. Live on the iOS App Store.
Led visual design in Krea for a fairy-themed meditation app for a paid client.
Research
Built ocular analysis pipeline in MATLAB: pupil and gaze extraction, blink interpolation, microsaccade detection, event epoching. MEG preprocessing with ICA and artifact rejection, automated on Slurm HPC. With Dr. Peter Bandettini.
Spike-sorting pipeline in Python isolating single neurons from four 64-channel arrays implanted in a participant with ALS. With Dr. Sergey Stavisky.
Perception paradigms in PsychToolbox, MATLAB visualization pipelines for iridescent stimuli. With Dr. Hannah Smithson.
Built a 40+ scene image dataset for studying how scene context shapes visual attention; ran eye-tracking experiments and annotated 200+ stimuli for object depth. With Dr. John Henderson.
Collected and analyzed 64-channel EEG data investigating audiovisual speech processing, including ERP analyses of N400 responses. With Drs. George Mangun & David Corina.
Analyzed clinical records and psychiatric outcomes in multiple sclerosis, using nonparametric and categorical statistical analyses. Work published in Neurology. With Drs. Jason Viereck, Kore Liow & Shin Chang.
Contributed to assembling EEG acquisition systems for neurological rehabilitation research and analyzed demographic effects on face recognition using mixed-design models. With Drs. Jonas Vibell & Kristin Pauker.
11 conference presentations, 2023–2026, including first-author talks at the Vision Sciences Society and the Smithsonian Institution. $140K+ in competitive fellowships, research support, and awards across nine programs.
Funding