About Me

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center, working with Dr. Theodore Satterthwaite. I received my PhD from the Harvard/MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT), where I trained in multimodal neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience under Dr. John Gabrieli.

I plan to enter the tenure-track academic job market in 2027.

My research aim is to understand how white matter development supports cognition and contributes to risk for emerging psychopathology. I leverage large-scale, multimodal neuroimaging datasets and advanced computational methods to characterize developmental trajectories across infancy through adolescence, with a particular interest in how these patterns generalize to clinically acquired data. Looking ahead, I aim to build a research program that integrates population-scale neuroscience with clinically actionable biomarkers of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.

I am also deeply committed to open and reproducible science. I contribute to and help develop widely used open-source neuroimaging tools, including QSIPrep, QSIRecon, XCP-D, and Nilearn, and I serve as a moderator for the NeuroStars community forum. I enjoy teaching researchers how to work with neuroimaging data using modern, open-source workflows.

Previously, during my doctoral work, I studied the neural systems supporting language and reading, combining fMRI, diffusion imaging, and behavioral assessments. Prior to my PhD, I earned my BSE and MSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania (2017, 2018), where I worked with Dr. Michael Kahana on intracranial EEG methods for neural data classification. I also worked as a research coordinator in the Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness (Dr. Brian Edlow), studying ICU-based neural biomarkers of recovery following traumatic brain injury.

Outside of research, I enjoy running, cooking, and performing music as a jazz percussionist (primarily vibraphone) and pianist.