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I was affiliated with the Language Acquisition and Sound Recognition Lab at the University of California at San Diego from February to August of 2013. For our studies on language acquisition in young children, I visited local preschools and used Tobii eye tracking equipment to collect language recognition data.

For the Spring 2013 semester I was employed as a grader for the philosophy stream of the new Benjamin Franklin Scholars Integrated Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. This new program integrates faculty from political science, cognitive science, and philosophy to cooperate in directing a course on topics at the intersection of these three disciplines. My responsibilities include working with the Undergraduate Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Karen Detlefsen, to… Show more For the Spring 2013 semester I was employed as a grader for the philosophy stream of the new Benjamin Franklin Scholars Integrated Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. This new program integrates faculty from political science, cognitive science, and philosophy to cooperate in directing a course on topics at the intersection of these three disciplines. My responsibilities include working with the Undergraduate Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Karen Detlefsen, to formulate multiple essay topics for the writing assignments in the philosophy stream, monitoring course activity over Blackboard Courseware, and grading two sets of 80 papers for the philosophy stream. Show less

For the summer and Fall of 2012 I was awarded a $4000 fellowship (plus a $1000 budget for research expenses) from the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center to undertake interdisciplinary independent research on human virtues and character strengths that integrates research from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. I then used the results of my research to provide a critical analysis of the situationist challenge against Aristotelian moral psychology. To do this, I first… Show more For the summer and Fall of 2012 I was awarded a $4000 fellowship (plus a $1000 budget for research expenses) from the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center to undertake interdisciplinary independent research on human virtues and character strengths that integrates research from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. I then used the results of my research to provide a critical analysis of the situationist challenge against Aristotelian moral psychology. To do this, I first outlined the details and results from 4 paradigmatic studies in psychology that situationists have heavily drawn upon in their critique of the Aristotelian conception of virtuous characteristics, including studies conducted by Hartshorne and May (1928), Darley and Batson (1973), Isen and Levin (1972), and Milgram (1963). I then presented 10 problems with the way situationists have used these studies to challenge Aristotelian moral psychology. After challenging the situationists on these grounds, I then proceeded to challenge the situationist presentation of the Aristotelian conception, showing that situationists have provided an oversimplified caricature of it that goes against the grain of much Aristotelian text. In evaluating the situationist challenge against the actual results from empirical research as well as primary Aristotelian text, I showed that the situationist debate has advanced both an extreme, untenable view about the nature of characteristics and situations, as well as an inaccurate presentation of the Aristotelian view. I presented the results of my research at the Positive Psychology Symposium on 18 January 2013. Show less

I have been affiliated with the Auditory Research Lab at the University of Pennsylvania since August 2010, conducting research with doctoral candidate Andrew Liu on the psychophysics of human audition. My responsibilities have included writing instructions for test subjects, scheduling and running test subjects, assisting with experimental design, interpreting data, and using computer programs such as MATLAB. I am also a regular participant in the lab’s journal club, which meets biweekly to… Show more I have been affiliated with the Auditory Research Lab at the University of Pennsylvania since August 2010, conducting research with doctoral candidate Andrew Liu on the psychophysics of human audition. My responsibilities have included writing instructions for test subjects, scheduling and running test subjects, assisting with experimental design, interpreting data, and using computer programs such as MATLAB. I am also a regular participant in the lab’s journal club, which meets biweekly to discuss new articles in auditory research and systems neuroscience. At journal club meetings I have reviewed and lead discussions on the following papers: (1) “Illusory Sound Perception in Macaque Monkeys” (Petkov, O’Connor, & Sutter, 2003) concerning auditory illusions; (2) “Distinct Neural Substrates of Duration-Based and Beat-Based Auditory Timing” (Teki, Grube, Kumar, & Griffiths, 2011) concerning the distinct neural substrates underlying (a) absolute, duration-based timing and (b) relative, beat-based timing; (3) “Premotor Cortex Mediates Perceptual Performance” (Callan, Callan, Gamez, Sato, & Kawato, 2010) concerning the mediation of the premotor cortex and the frontal opercular section of Broca’s area in speech perception; (4) “Perceptual Learning Reduces Interneuronal Correlations in Macaque Visual Cortex” (Gu, Liu, Fetsch, Yang, Fok, Sunkara, DeAngelis, & Angelaki, 2011) concerning perceptual learning and its influence on neurons at the individual and population level; (5) “Novelty Detection in the Human Auditory Brainstem” (Slabu, Grimm, & Escera, 2012) concerning the human auditory brainstem’s ability to encode acoustic regularities in a memory trace and to detect deviant events based on a comparison process between the current auditory input and the recent auditory past. Show less

I was employed by the Goodwin Social Psychology Lab at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2011-2012 academic year, conducting research with Dr. Geoff Goodwin, Dr. Jared Piazza, and doctoral candidate Justin Landy on topics in moral psychology. My responsibilities included preparing and printing different variations of survey questionnaires, writing instructions for experiments, scheduling subjects for experiments, running subjects in experiments and debriefing them afterwards, coding data… Show more I was employed by the Goodwin Social Psychology Lab at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2011-2012 academic year, conducting research with Dr. Geoff Goodwin, Dr. Jared Piazza, and doctoral candidate Justin Landy on topics in moral psychology. My responsibilities included preparing and printing different variations of survey questionnaires, writing instructions for experiments, scheduling subjects for experiments, running subjects in experiments and debriefing them afterwards, coding data from experiments, and using Qualtrics Survey Software to develop online surveys for use on Amazon Mechanical Turk. I was also a regular participant in the lab’s journal club, which would meet weekly to discuss articles and formulate research projects in social psychology. Show less

I have been affiliated with the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab at Columbia University since April 2012, conducting research with Dr. Alexandra Horowitz and Julie Hecht (M.Sc.) on the olfactory abilities and play behavior of dogs (Canis familiaris). My responsibilities for our study on canine olfaction included conducting reviews of the relevant literature and compiling relevant articles onto an online database, preparing consent forms and questionnaires for the owners to complete, preparing scent… Show more I have been affiliated with the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab at Columbia University since April 2012, conducting research with Dr. Alexandra Horowitz and Julie Hecht (M.Sc.) on the olfactory abilities and play behavior of dogs (Canis familiaris). My responsibilities for our study on canine olfaction included conducting reviews of the relevant literature and compiling relevant articles onto an online database, preparing consent forms and questionnaires for the owners to complete, preparing scent and food items for the experiment, filming the experiment for subsequent coding, and coding the data from the filmed videos onto Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. My responsibilities for our study on the play behavior of dogs included conducting reviews of the relevant literature and compiling relevant articles onto an online database, recruiting participants for this study, helping to create an ethogram that identifies the different forms of behavior to be analyzed, engaging in play behavior with multiple dogs and filming this play behavior for subsequent analysis, and coding the data from the filmed videos onto Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This project is still in progress. Show less

I served as a Copy Editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published by the University of Tennessee at Martin. Articles I have copy edited include: (1) Donald Davidson's Philosophy of Language, (2) Roger Bacon On Language, (3) Aesthetic Attitude, (4) Ordinary Language Philosophy, (5) Knowledge, and (6) Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description. http://www.iep.utm.edu/

During the summer of 2012 I was affiliated with the Mind and Development Lab at Yale University, conducting research with Dr. Paul Bloom, doctoral candidate Mark Sheskin, and research assistant Amber Cazzell on topics in moral psychology. Our main project focused on conducting a study regarding children’s understanding of equity and fairness. My responsibilities for this project included conducting reviews of the relevant literature and helping to conceive of the experimental design, creating… Show more During the summer of 2012 I was affiliated with the Mind and Development Lab at Yale University, conducting research with Dr. Paul Bloom, doctoral candidate Mark Sheskin, and research assistant Amber Cazzell on topics in moral psychology. Our main project focused on conducting a study regarding children’s understanding of equity and fairness. My responsibilities for this project included conducting reviews of the relevant literature and helping to conceive of the experimental design, creating and managing the study materials (such as placement mats, stickers, and toys used for the distribution tasks, etc.), writing the script for the study, recruiting participants through phone calls and emails and scheduling appointments on the Yale database, making confirmation calls prior to running the experiment, preparing consent forms for the adults to sign and safely storing the consent forms in the lab filing system, conducting the experiment on children and filming the experiment for subsequent coding, debriefing parents on the details and purpose of the study, coding the data from the filmed videos onto Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, analyzing the data and interpreting the results, creating an overview document outlining the details of our study for other potential collaborators, and preparing a write up of the results from our study for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Show less

I have worked as a Certified Personal Trainer at 24 Hour Fitness from September 2008 to June 2009. As a Certified Personal Trainer, I was responsible for recruiting clients, assessing the health and physiological condition of clients and conducting body fat analyses, creating personalized nutritional programs and structured exercise regimens for each client, and tracking their overall progress. I also sold personal training packages, vitamins, and supplements, and was consistently one of the… Show more I have worked as a Certified Personal Trainer at 24 Hour Fitness from September 2008 to June 2009. As a Certified Personal Trainer, I was responsible for recruiting clients, assessing the health and physiological condition of clients and conducting body fat analyses, creating personalized nutritional programs and structured exercise regimens for each client, and tracking their overall progress. I also sold personal training packages, vitamins, and supplements, and was consistently one of the highest selling trainers at South Hills Plaza. Additionally, as part of my training I was required to take courses in first aid and CPR, and in 2008 I received certifications in both “Standard First Aid” and “CPR: Adult, Child, and Infant” (certification # 653998) from the American Red Cross. Show less

I was an enlisted aviator on the C-17 cargo jet for the United States Air Force from 2000 to 2004. For my service during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom I was awarded the Air Medal and Air Force Achievement Medal (among others), and had dinner with President Bill Clinton in Al Udeid, Qatar.