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I am a PhD student at UC San Diego in the Neurosciences Graduate Program, in the Computational Neuroscience specialization. My advisors are Eric Halgren (Dept. of Radiology) and Maxim Bazhenov (Dept. of Medicine), and my primary research project centers on the effects of intracranial stimulation in silico and in vivo, i.e. using computer simulations to understand and predict what happens when you zap a brain with electrical current.
I graduated from Wesleyan University, where I majored in Chemistry (doing research in Erika Taylor's Lab), Neuroscience & Behavior, and the Science in Society Program (SISP).
From July 2016 to June 2018, I worked at Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics and the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, originally with Michael LeVine and then with George Khelashvili as part of Harel Weinstein's group. My research focused on the use of computational simulations, especially molecular dynamics and molecular docking, to study the molecular biology of the serotonin transporter and its homologs, as well as the G protein-coupled receptor opsin.
Topics I can enthusiastically ramble on about include (but are not limited to): brains, linguistics and languages, plants (especially trees), consciousness, science and its place in society/culture, music, constructed languages/scripts/worlds, fish, computer science and programing, anthropology, tech, and politics/justice. I like to walk, hike, think, converse, debate, listen, play/compose/listen to music, hang out with my plant friends, travel, take pictures, program/automate/play with computers, and listen to books and lots of podcasts.
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My résumé can be found here.
And you can email me.