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Used Python, via Jupyter noteboook, to assess the quality of (and improve) human annotations. Helped design new taxonomies and iterate already-existing taxonomies. Developed and evaluates proof-of-concept machine learning models to assess the chatbot performance.

Medford, Massachusetts, United States

Mentored students in general academic skills, such as time management and work-life balance. I also mentored students in statistical skills, from concepts (e.g., confidence intervals, significance) to advanced statistical techniques (implementing and interpreting principal components analysis).

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

My coolest findings were: - In a laboratory setting, friends miscommunicate three times more than strangers.- Speakers refer to speech further back in conversation than listeners can remember, causing miscommunication.- Large language models trained on written data can learn to understand speaker identity in conversation, but only sometimes, and they.

Graded and offered office hours for Statistics for Behavioral Sciences (Fall 2017, Fall 2018), Cognitive Psychology (Spring 2018) and Physiological Psychology (Summer 2020).

Emerson College - Boston, Massachusetts

Studied the receptive and expressive social communication habits of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Used motion capture to analyze facial expressions, eye tracking to analyze facial perception, audio recordings to analyze semantic and pragmatic linguistic ability, standardized tests to measure ability, and ECG and EDA recordings to analyze how.

Mansfield, CT

Coded infant preferential looking videos, transcribed ADOS administrations, and collaborated on a project to transcribe the speech of one child and her family collected over several months, with the goal of tracking language development of children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Mansfield, CT

Worked with MATLAB and PDPTool to investigate the possibility of applying attractor networks to phonology and semantics. Ran participants through visual world paradigms using an eye tracker to investigate how listeners use context to understand language.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Psychology And Cognitive Science

Activities and Societies: Provost Fellow

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Cognitive Science, Psychology, 3.87

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, Dean's List, New England Scholar