I am a philosopher of science who specializes in cognitive biology, an interdisciplinary research field that studies cognition as a biological function. My research generally focuses on how mathematical modeling frameworks cross boundaries even between science and technology, especially those deployed to answer questions such as what kind of creatures we are. 

In Spring 2023, I will begin teaching at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, as an assistant professor in philosophy. 

In 2022, I received an Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Scholarship and worked at Academia Sinica's Institute of European and American Studies in Taiwan as a distinguished postdoctoral scholar from July 2022 to October 2022.

From September 2021 to June 2022, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Taiwan at National Tsing Hua University’s College of Technology Management. During this period, I participated in Professor Hsiang-Ke Chao's project "Inference to the Best Model: Perspectives on the Practices across Sciences" while serving as a guest editor on a topical collection for Synthese on The Transdisciplinary Model and Template Transfer in collaboration with Paul Humphreys.

From 2019 to 2021, I was at the University of Virginia on a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship supported by the National Science Foundation to work on my research project titled "A Case Study of the Cross-disciplinary Use of Mathematical Constructs in Computational Biology as Tool Migration." During this time, I co-organized the workshop "Transdisciplinary Model Transfer and its Interfaces" in collaboration with Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, and Paul Humphreys.

In May 2019, I received my Ph.D from the University of South Carolina under Michael Dickson's supervision.  My dissertation project, titled Tool Migration: A Framework to Study the Cross-disciplinary Use of Mathematical Constructs in Science, was supported by both the SPARC Grant from the University of South Carolina and the Write-Up Fellowship from the Konrad Lorenz Institute.

My other philosophical interests include philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and applied philosophy.

I have multiple years of experience teaching introductory philosophy courses including formal logic and other courses that emphasize critical thinking, ethics and value. 

In addition to research and teaching, I enjoy biking, gardening, and partaking in the maker movement to build things such as a Dactyl keyboard.