I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the social psychology program at NYU. In my research, I apply experimental and computational approaches to understanding how system-level cognitions and behaviors emerge from individuals, to the aim of addressing large-scale social issues (e.g., systemic inequality and climate change). I am also interested in how collective representations manifest in natural language and propagate via AI algorithms.

Before pursuing a Ph.D., I got my B.A. in psychology from University of California, San Diego in 2014. I was an RA in a handful of research labs during my time there, ranging from neuropsychopharmacology, to cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging. After graduating, I received my M.A. in psychology at San Diego State University, researching Autism Spectrum Disorders with resting state fMRI. After that, I was the lab manager for a couple labs at NYU (Jon Freeman & Dave Amodio) and shortly after began my Ph.D. with Dave Amodio in 2018. 

My wife, Ashley Berkebile-Weinberg, is also pursuing her Ph.D., doing excellent research concerning conversational and relational dynamics of close intergroup relationships.