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.

Things I always highly highly highly recommend dedicating time to

Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell

Changed how I communicate. Reading someone you don't know is a far harder problem than most people treat it as.

To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative — to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception — is worse.

The Danger of a Single Story Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.
Plyfaa Suwanamalik-Murphy

Shipped

  1. Nudge

    try-nudge.com

    Browser focus tool. MediaPipe FaceMesh gaze tracking, three-step calibration, 10-second distraction threshold. React, Vite, TypeScript, no server.

  2. Rodeo Growth Fellow

    rodeorodeorodeo.com

    UGC content for Rodeo, founded by former Hinge execs. Drove 150K+ TikTok views in 2 weeks, starting with no prior social media experience.

  3. Matches pls

    matchespls.com

    Directory and map for free matchbooks in San Francisco. Built because people on TikTok kept asking for one.

  4. Lasso

    App Store

    Price-drop tracker. Live on the iOS App Store.

  5. Meditation app

    Led visual design in Krea for a fairy-themed meditation app for a paid client.

Research

  1. NIH / NIMH, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition

    2024–2026

    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.

  2. UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab, Simons Foundation Fellow

    2023–2024

    Spike-sorting pipeline in Python isolating single neurons from four 64-channel arrays implanted in a participant with ALS. With Dr. Sergey Stavisky.

  3. University of Oxford, Perception Lab

    2023

    Perception paradigms in PsychToolbox, MATLAB visualization pipelines for iridescent stimuli. With Dr. Hannah Smithson.

  4. UC Davis, Center for Mind & Brain · Visual Cognition Lab

    2022–2023

    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.

  5. UC Davis, Center for Mind & Brain · Neural Mechanisms of Attention + Cognitive Neurolinguistics

    2022–2023

    Collected and analyzed 64-channel EEG data investigating audiovisual speech processing, including ERP analyses of N400 responses. With Drs. George Mangun & David Corina.

  6. Hawaiʻi Pacific Neuroscience

    2022

    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.

  7. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · Brain & Behavior + Intergroup Social Perception Labs

    2022

    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