I am a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, working with Lila Davachi. I obtained my PhD in 2019 at Princeton University working with Uri Hasson and Ken Norman. Before my PhD, I received an MD from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and then worked with Randolph Blake at Vanderbilt University and Seoul National University.

My research utilizes a combination of innovative naturalistic experimental paradigms and neural (fMRI and ECoG) and computational methods to understand how memory system supports (re)constructive brain processes. I ask how our prior knowledge and memories build our current understanding of the world and how our current experiences reconstruct and update our prior memories. I study both adaptive and aberrant cases of constructive processes in healthy and clinical populations (psychiatric disorders) to build a comprehensive model of the basic and compensatory computations that enable adaptive behavior.