Presenting research ideas at SCADS 2024 (photo by Katherine Kershaw of NCSU).
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I attended Butler University in Indianapolis, IN from 2016-2020. I received a B.A. in Psychology and Critical Communications & Media Studies with a minor in Neuroscience. At Butler I conducted research in behavioral neuroscience with Dr. Jennifer Berry. We were interested in how caffeine and alcohol are co-abused.
I then attended Vanderbilt University where I earned my M.S. (2022) and my Ph.D. (2025) in Cognitive Psychology. There I conducted research with Dr. Sarah Brown-Schmidt on topics such as how people engage in conversation and how those conversations are remembered. Broadly my expertise developed here is in language and memory.
For the 2024 summer I was a graduate research intern with the Laboratory for Analytic Science at North Carolina State University. During the 8-week internship (SCADS) I worked on four different projects related to creating an ideal AI-driven automatic summarization and recommendation system to support intelligence analysts as they review vast amounts of data.
My domain expertise is in cognitive psychology, and the skillset I've developed includes the following:
Quantitative analyses (Bayesian inference, mixed effects models, structural equation modeling, nonparametric approaches, ANOVAs, and more).
Qualitative analyses (coding transcripts, thematic analysis, heuristic qualitative analysis, requirements elicitation, more).
Software use for data wrangling, analysis, experiment display, and natural language processing (Python, R, JASP, SPSS, SAS, & MATLAB).
Survey and experimental design (using Gorilla.sc, Qualtrics, and MATLAB)
Subject recruitment and guidance (experience with Amazon Mechanical Turk & Prolific; experience working with patients with brain injury).
User-based research (experience working directly with the customer to elicit what an ideal AI-driven system is for them).
Science communication (I have presented my research at conferences in Japan, Boston, San Francisco, and more).
Supervisory skills (at SCADS I was the project lead for my own project, at Vanderbilt I coordinate many other students to conduct my research).
Writing (experience writing technical reports for more general audiences, experience with LaTeX, and experience writing academic articles).
Myself and the other participants of SMLP 2024 - a week long statistics course at Potsdam Universität in Potsdam, Germany. Here I studied introductory Bayesian inference.
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