I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. I work with Mehrdad Jazayeri and Josh Tenenbaum studying how the primate brain represents multi-object scenes, predicts the dynamics of moving objects, and flexibly executes manual grasping and insertion of objects. More broadly, I'm interested in studying neuroscientific questions that bear on shortcomings of current AI, such as how the brain does sample-efficient learning, flexible generalization, and robust motor control. Going forward I plan to work on brain computer interfaces and robotics.

Before beginning my PhD I worked for three years as a research engineer at Google Deepmind, where I focused on visual unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning. Before that I did my undergrad at Harvard, where I majored in math and computer science.

Aside from research, I like playing music (jazz piano) and sports (ultimate frisbee, squash, soccer, hiking).