I am currently a graduate student in the Psychology Department at Harvard University, working with Professor Christine Hooker in the Social Neuroscience and Psychopathology Lab. I am also a member of the Vision Lab at Harvard, working with Professor Ken Nakayama.
I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology in 2004. Since then, I have worked as a research assistant at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of University College London.
I am interested in the way our brain helps us to identify, understand, and communicate with other people, and how individual differences in these abilities might relate to personality and psychopathology. I am also interested in how social perception develops, and the way that abnormalities in development might relate to specific developmental disorders.
Finally, I run a website called TestMyBrain.org for conducting internet-based behavioral experiments. Through this site, my collaborators and I have collected data from hundreds of thousands of individuals across the globe to investigate individual differences in social perception and other neurocognitive abilities. We are currently working on TestMyBrain 2.0, which we hope to launch in the next 2-3 months.
