I am a postdoctoral associate in Bioengineering & Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh with a focus in adolescent neuroimaging. My current work aims to integrate multimodal neuroimaging and neural recording data to assess instrinsic neural time scales and entropy to characterize neurocognitive development through adolescence. I was born and raised in Morristown, NJ. In my free time I enjoy hanging out with my friends, travel, taking my dog on hikes, and rock climbing.

Research Interests

My PhD dissertation focused on the following three aims: 1) assess the neural underpinnings of improved executive function, modeled in our WM task (Aim 1), and 2) investigate EEG-derived measures of the E/I balance and their associations with 7T Magnetic Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) derived measures of GABA and glutamate (Aim 2), that will be supported by invasive stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) recordings (Aim 3). The full dissertation can be found here.

After my postdoc, I would like to focus on more clinical realms of research, including using neuroimaging, whether that be EEG, MRI, PET, etc, for mental health diagnoses and/or using AI in combination with neuroimaging to match patients with the appropriate and most likley to be successful medication.