I am a graduate student in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, working with Rick Lewis in Psychology and Satinder Singh in Computer Science. Before this, I was an RA for Colin Phillips at the University of Maryland Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab, and before that I managed a multimillion-dollar emerging-markets product for Gartner. I got my BA in Linguistics at Yale where I wrote my senior thesis with Maria Piñango.

Broadly, my key scientific interest is in building a machine that will do things that humans do in the way that humans do it. This is on one hand a spectacular handicap in that there are things that machines do far better than humans and vice versa, but on the other hand an advantage in that I think that the bounds placed on humans do much to drive the elegant solutions that humans arrive at. Plus, understanding humans is interesting in its own right.

More narrowly, I have recently been working on understanding how humans move their eyes while reading, as a function of both their individual cognitive and physiological characteristics, and the specific goals before them. Earlier, I worked on other questions in sentence processing, as well as music perception.

When I am not doing science, I am dancing or playing music or cooking.