Projects

Portfolio

A compact map of research systems, machine learning projects, and visual experiments across brain data, behavior, audio, images, and tools for collaborative science.

eLife reviewed preprint · PhD thesis · Multimodal fMRI

Naturalistic neural encoding in autism

Built a preregistered multimodal encoding pipeline linking naturalistic movie features to whole-brain fMRI in 171 youth, revealing altered visual feature weighting in autism-related pSTS and social/integration cortex.

  • Python
  • Predictive modeling
  • fMRI
  • Multimodal ML

ICCV 2021 · Cross-modal generation

Image2Reverb

An end-to-end model that predicts acoustic impulse responses from RGB images of spaces, enabling geometry-aware reverb synthesis from visual scenes.

  • PyTorch
  • CNNs
  • Audio
  • Computer vision

Dataset engineering · Child speech · Public ML challenge

ReadNet pediatric speech dataset

Led first-year dataset engineering and QA/QC for ReadNet, preparing anonymized pediatric speech and literacy assessment data for a public DrivenData ML challenge that received 315 submissions and reached 0.97 AUROC.

  • Speech data
  • Dataset engineering
  • QA/QC
  • ASR
  • Public ML challenge

VR · Eye-tracking · Visual attention

Naturalistic gaze and salience

End-to-end VR eye-tracking and salience modeling workflows for studying attention in immersive 360 degree scenes, including autism-relevant behavioral markers.

  • VR
  • Eye-tracking
  • Salience models

OHBM 2023 · Oral · Naturalistic fMRI

Brain networks via tensor decomposition

Applied NASCAR tensor decomposition to naturalistic movie-viewing and resting-state fMRI in a clinically rich cohort, identifying shared brain networks without ICA-style independence assumptions.

  • fMRI
  • Tensor decomposition
  • Naturalistic stimuli
  • Autism

Web App · Visualization · Annotation

Neuroscout web tools

p5.js feature visualizer plus a web annotation platform for naturalistic movies—making Neuroscout-scale stimulus features explorable and producing structured labels for neuroimaging and ML.

  • Web App
  • JavaScript
  • p5.js
  • Neuroscout

Psychophysics × Pharmacology · GABA

GABAergic inhibition and perceptual awareness

Co-first-author pharmacology study showing that both GABA_A and GABA_B modulation increased perceptual suppression during binocular rivalry, providing causal evidence linking inhibition to perceptual awareness.

  • Psychophysics
  • Pharmacology
  • Autism
  • Clinical Studies

Rivalry · Autism · EEG · Computational neuroscience

Slower binocular rivalry in the autistic brain

Co-authored EEG study showing slower neural and behavioral rivalry dynamics in autism, with neural signals predicting symptom severity and classifying diagnostic status.

  • EEG
  • SSVEP
  • Autism
  • Perception

Stimulus reconstruction · Music · Neural decoding

Naturalistic music and neural representation

Master’s thesis linking naturalistic music stimuli to brain responses using computational modeling and a large-scale audio corpus.

  • Audio
  • Modeling
  • fMRI
  • Thesis

Clinical Research · Alzheimer’s · Phase II/III

Alzheimer’s clinical trial coordination

Coordinated Phase II/III Alzheimer’s clinical trials, working directly with patients, caregivers, clinicians, and study protocols to support compliant, patient-centered research execution.

  • Clinical Research
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Trials
  • Operations

Fieldwork · Deep Sea · Coral

Deep-sea marine biology

Early research experience that taught me how to work carefully with unfamiliar systems, collect data under constraints, and stay curious outside the path I eventually took into ML and neuroscience.

  • Fieldwork
  • Coral
  • Marine biology
  • Research

Data sonification · Visualization · Marine science

Gulf of Mexico mosaic sonification

p5.js sonification and visualization for deep-sea coral mosaic dive sites in the Gulf of Mexico—interactive exploration of survey imagery with GitHub Pages demo.

  • p5.js
  • Sonification
  • JavaScript
  • Marine science
IR sample: my mom and François

Photography · Hardware · DIY

Infrared & full-spectrum camera mods

A curiosity-driven side project in hardware and imaging: modifying old cameras for near-infrared photography and experimenting with optics, disassembly, and post-processing.

  • Photography
  • Hardware
  • Infrared