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Sept 2026: I moved to London🇬🇧! Excited to officially begin my PhD at University College London Experimental Psychology☺️! 

Check out our preprint update: The context-dependent evolution of structure learning and metacognition✍️

Aug 2026: Gave a talk at the Metacognitive Science Satellite at CCN & presented a poster at CCN in NYC🗽! 

Also grateful to have presented my work to Dr. Anna Schapiro's lab at Penn and to Dr. Wei Ji Ma's lab at NYU😃! 

July 2026: Had so much fun learning at the Barcelona Advanced Modeling of Behavior Summer School🧠! 

June 2026: Passed my Master's exam - got my M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from University of California, Irvine. 

May 2026: I gave a talk at VSS 2026 in the decision-making symposium! Had the best time engaging in conversations with perception enthusiasts and experts👁️🤩. 

March 2026: I gave a talk at UCI Cognitive Sciences' colloquium😃! 

January 2026: New year, new preprint! Excited to announce my new paper with Dr. Megan Peters: Stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics.

November 2025: Presented a poster at SFN 2025 in San Diego, CA. 

August 2025: Had an absolute blast attending CogSci2025 in San Francisco, CA! I presented a poster for my Master's Project from RPI: Examining the Influence of Stress and Anxiety on Visual Working Memory and Decision-Making (coauthors: Drs. Alicia Walf & Chris Sims). Check out our paper here. 

April 2025: My labmates and I won the UCI Cognitive Sciences department bakeoff as team Crumbly Neural Creations🥧! 

March 2025: Gave a talk at the UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute. 

July 2024: Spending the Summer building & teaching STEM camp curricula for kids covering everything from binary code, electric circuits, animal habitats, and astronomy🔬. Check out my materials here.

Also contributed data & analysis to this article posted, drawing from my work as an intern with Arity's Business Intelligence & Geospatial Data Science teams in 2023. 

May 2024: Officially have my M.S. in Cognitive Science from RPI. Excited to move to SoCal to begin my PhD in Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine☀️! 

February 2024: Presented my Master's Project work at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Cognitive Science research colloquium.