Projects (Under Construction!)
Portfolio
A growing map of research systems, machine learning projects, and visual experiments. Many are written as project snapshots for now, but will be fleshed out soon!
PhD thesis · Preregistered fMRI · Multimodal ML
Naturalistic neural encoding in autism
Built a preregistered multimodal modeling pipeline linking movie features to whole-brain fMRI in 171 youth, revealing where sensory and higher-level representations diverge in autism.
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.
Dataset engineering · Public ML challenge
Pediatric speech dataset
Preprocessing and feature extraction pipelines for anonymized child speech recordings, supporting an ML challenge focused on automated speech recognition for early literacy assessment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.