I use computational models of signal detection and behavioral economics to investigate affect/emotion, perception, & decision-making, and the breakdown of those processes in mental illness.• Responsible for hiring and leading a team of 15 research assistants in data collection and analysis for multi-year federally-funded projects investigating learning, decision making, personality, and emotion.• Mentor other professors, post-doctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students on experimental design, statistical analysis, computer programming, and technical writing• Mathematically model decision making, cost/benefit analysis, and risk assessment (based on novel applications of signal detection theory to learning and behavior).• Deployed mobile/wearable data acquisition for physiological applications within the domain of affective science and decision making.• Received funding from the U.S. Army for research on leadership development, and from NIMH for research on socio-emotional deficits of social anxiety.

Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (Drs. Lisa Feldman Barrett & Karen Quigley)Conducted behavioral experiments in perceptual decision-making with human subjects, using mathematical modeling and peripheral physiology.

Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett)Conducted behavioral experiments in perceptual decision-making with human subjects, using mathematical modeling and peripheral physiology.

Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, McLean Hospital (Drs. Bruce Cohen & Ned Buttner)Division of Neurochemistry, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard University (Dr. Gregory Miller)• Worked collaboratively on basic research aimed developing novel antipsychotic drugs. - Directed research on mice to investigate the role of trace-amine associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) knockout mice on cognitive/behavioral mechanisms of action of antipsychotic drugs. - Collected behavioral data comparing genetic strains of C. elegans to investigate genetic mechanisms of action of antipsychotic drugs. - Used neuronal cell cultures to investigate the role of intracellular signaling cascades (esp. of insulin signaling) associated with antipsychotic drugs

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (Dr. Dean Salisbury)• Conducted electroencephalography (EEG) research to investigate affective and cognitive processing in schizophrenia and affective psychoses. • Administered clinical interviews and symptom rating scales to assess psychopathology, and conducted neuropsychological testing.

Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media (Waltham, MA)• Investigated the effects of exposure to violent media on adolescents and young adults. - Coded video games and other visual media for violent content - Collected neuro- and psychophysiological data during video game play - Administered media-exposure and psychosocial surveys in middle-schools

An academic year during graduate school focused on computer science and electrical engineering.• Mathematical modeling of agent-based learning & decision making (Matlab, Java)• Designed, constructed, and deployed GPS-enabled digital-radio transmitters for wild parrots • UX, user interface design (Matlab)