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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Offering Behavioural Science and Statistical Consulting Services
• Working with a variety of clients from nonprofits, businesses, and startups to develop and manage strategic research goals, develop actionable roadmaps, launch behavioural studies and surveys, conduct statistical.
• Building a range of investigative tools to quantify human behaviour, decision-making, and cognitive processes.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Synthesized and analyzed behavioural, clinical, and biomolecular data to drive decision-making for patient care and wellness.
• Advised clinicians, industry partners, and stakeholders in research design, data analysis and interpretation, and research communications, while implementing emerging tools for clinic-based and remote research practices.
• Managed and carried out data analysis for longitudinal studies and clinical trials held at multiple Canadian institutions using a wide range of statistical modeling techniques.
• Analyzed and interpreted clinical assessment data from randomized controlled trials and cluster randomized trials, and applied advanced statistical methods, including regression, predictive modeling, time series.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed CIFAR’s Strategic Initiatives Portfolio by leading and developing inter-program research in addition to tracking deliverables, research outcomes, program milestones, and social impact
• Worked directly with CIFAR’s interdisciplinary global research programs in psychology, human health, child development, neuroscience, and AI to address high-risk research questions and mobilize knowledge.
• Provided scientific leadership across departments and monitored the use of best research practices within the organization.
• Developed performance measurement and evaluation techniques to assess and communicate research outcomes and key deliverables with stakeholders, donors, and research partners.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Laboratory for Motor Learning and Neural Plasticity
• Led projects examining auditory-motor interactions underlying error monitoring processes and human motor synchronization using EEG.
• Collaborated on a project assessing audiomotor learning and memory encoding using neural stimulation (TMS) and EEG.
• Refined data visualization and analysis techniques for neuroimaging and behavioural data.

• Developed and taught fundamental theories of inferential statistics and applied quantitative techniques in scientific research for Life Sciences students.
• Combined traditional in-class lecturing with a contemporary online course management system to streamline course management, host and monitor discussion forums, and offer additional learning and evaluation resources.
• Received consistently positive student evaluations highlighting highly effective teaching and organization, student-centred learning techniques, and clear expected learning outcomes.

• Teaching Assistant for 10 courses in Psychology, Neuroscience, and StatisticsBasic and Clinical Neuroscience, McMaster University, Winter 2016
• Conducted weekly tutorials developing projects that propagated scientific outreach targeted at various groups in the community. Inferential Statistics, McMaster University Fall 2015 and 2016
• Constructed and administered weekly tutorials aimed at clarifying and applying statistical tests including t-tests, ANOVAs and nonparametric statistics. Descriptive Statistics, McMaster University, Winter 2015
• Constructed weekly and administered weekly tutorials teaching students basic computational methods for analyzing data, measuring central tendencies of samples and populations, and making quantitative comparisons.
• Guided two classes of advanced senior undergraduate students in effective communicating scientific results, delivering oral presentations on their independent research projects focused on a range of topics in.
• Clarified concepts for students enrolled in a course focused on fundamentals of human sensation and perception, consciousness, memory, and processes underlying behaviour and action. Sensory Processes, McMaster.

Mcmaster University

• Collaboratively developed an online multi-module course teaching key concepts in descriptive and inferential statistics in an accessible and self-paced platform.
• Planned, wrote, recorded, and edited lectures facilitated by visuals and animations using real data to teach fundamentals in statistical analysis.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Research And Experimental Psychology

Activities and Societies: ‣ Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2015-2016) ‣ Psychology.

Honours Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, Neuroscience And Behaviour