• Sole summer undergraduate member contributing to cognitive control studies focused on inhibition-induced devaluation.• Ran participants through 75-minute experimental sessions, ensuring accurate data collection and adherence to study protocols.• Contributed to weekly mini-lab discussions, collaborating with a project team on analyzing the existing literature, participant outreach and experimental design.• Authored a comprehensive literature review on the underlying cognitive mechanisms of inhibition and devaluation processes.

• Helped with brainstorming, planning, and executing events aimed at fostering community among Black students at Stanford.• Led community outreach initiatives to increase event participation and engagement, strengthening connections within the student body.• Improved graphic design skills in Canva and Adobe Photoshop to create flyers and promotional materials for events.• Met with team in weekly brainstorm and progress update meetings, honing teamwork and event planning skills.

• Led project’s theory team and explored key concepts in developmental psychology, including socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), the effects of perceived time horizons on beliefs, the positivity effect, and prosocial behavior.• Utilized R for preliminary statistical analysis and data visualization, designed surveys using Qualtrics, and conducted comprehensive literature review.• Collaborated closely with other teams (methods, stats teams) to synthesize theory and research findings into actionable study designs.

• Assisted with graduate research on cognitive development, contributing to two studies on infants’ and preschoolers’ deductive reasoning and understanding of modal concepts.• Played a key role in data collection and preparation of study materials to ensure smooth execution of experiments.• Reviewed and synthesized relevant theoretical and empirical literature on the developmental origins of thought compositionality, a relatively new concept in the “language of thought” area of cognitive science.• Recruited and tested both infant and preschooler participants, and processed and analyzed behavioral footage from the pilot trials using DataVyu.• Collaborated closely with the project team to improve study design and contributed to ongoing project discussions.