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Sacramento, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Conducted research in systems neuroscience to explore how different brain areas (dCA1 and vCA1 in mice) might distinctively support associative memory and learning.Collaborated with graduate student and postdoc fellows, while personally leading 6 undergraduate researchers, to collect and analyze large, complex datasets to answer specific scientific.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Led a year-long covid-relief program in collaboration with other student governments; returned ~$40K to students in need.
• Led monthly group discussions and weekly one-on-one meetings focusing on recruitment and student needs analysis. Created new positions focusing on diversity and organization outreach. Advocated on behalf of various.
• Managed funding and oversaw budgets to increase funding for diversity organizations and science communication events.Led monthly group discussions and weekly one-on-one meetings focusing on recruitment and student.

• Gathered and analyzed student input regarding discriminatory policies; led communications between various stakeholder groups and met with experts to collaborate on policy analysis.
• Reviewed new degree programs, classes, diversity initiatives, and fellowship awarding.

• Collaborated with fellow students to summarize community outreach; presented findings and policy recommendations to the community, including the chancellor and deans.

• Collaborated with fellow students to summarize community outreach; presented findings and policy recommendations to the community, including the chancellor and deans.

• Organized community events. Summarized and guided implementation of program policy changes. Created new hiring procedures and collaborated with students and faculty to make recommendations for diverse faculty hiring.

• Reviewed graduate division units’ budget and performance, advocated for changes in childcare support.

Greater New York City Area

Primary Project: Optogenetic Manipulation and 2-Photon Calcium Imaging of Mouse Hippocampus in a Spatial Memory and Learning TaskCollaborated with a group of graduate students and postdoc fellows on a series of published projects examining spatial learning and memory. Tested new experimental tools to generate insights and improve understanding of neural.

• Primary Project & Honors Thesis: Transcranial Alternating Current (tACS): Effects on Tactile Perception
• Collaborating with a team to design and test a new open-sourced EEG system (http://open-ephys.org/) within a tactile detection and tACS task
• Analyze effects of tACS on mechanosensation between subjects with different endogenous alpha rhythms

• Primary Project: Prefrontal Striatal Interactions during Learning, mentored by PI Dr. Wael Asaad
• Analyzed neural data from the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia from a reinforcement-learning macaque monkey task
• Programmed graphical computation tools in Matlab for neural oscillation analysis
• Awarded funding through UTRA grant for Summer 2013

• Project: Regulation of Feeding State of Drosophila melanogaster, mentored by Drs. Leslie Vosshall and Nilay Yapici
• Executed behavior assays, neural imaging techniques, and genetic tools: Immunohistochemistry, probe synthesis, PCR, and gel electrophoresis

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Honors In Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Psi, Shakespeare on the Green, Meiklejohn Peer Advisors, Algebra in Motion

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