I am the Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for Health & Medicine in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, where I work with Dr. Frank Rudzicz. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Hospital, where I also worked on the Knowledge Mobilization team at the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation. I completed my PhD in Psychology (Cognition & Perception) at New York University and my Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, at Dalhousie University.
My research investigates how the human brain takes in sensory information to create and retrieve knowledge and memories, how these systems breakdown in disease and injury, and how we can build better tools to detect these breakdowns earlier and with greater sensitivity. My work focuses specifically on roles of neuronal oscillations and eye movements, and harnesses advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence to better understand the human brain.
To do so, I design naturalistic experiments that probe visual cognition and memory, and collect neurophysiological or brain imaging data alongside simultaneous eye-tracking. This allows me to develop theories of how memories are formed in the real world, as well as what might go wrong in disorders and diseases that affect memory, using enjoyable experiments in the lab. To learn more about specific projects, please see my Publications.