About

I’m a postdoctoral scholar in the Chang Lab at UCSF, where I study how we produce speech and develop speech brain computer interfaces. I also completed my PhD in the Chang Lab through the UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering.

Broadly, I’m interested in the neural basis of how we produce speech. That is, how the brain plans and sequences the movements needed to speak fluently. I’m also interested in the intersection of machine learning and speech neuroscience to develop naturalistic speech brain computer interfaces (BCI) for those who have lost the ability to speak and cannot easily communicate by other augmentative methods. My work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Science Magazine, NPR and more.

Apart from my research, I’ve helped develop software for preprocessing and visualization of ECoG data, using the Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) format.

Outside of research, I enjoy getting outdoors, especially hiking and backpacking.