About Me
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Neuroscience & Mathematical Biology - William & Mary - 2017-2021
- PhD, Neuroscience & Cognitive Science - Indiana University, Bloomington - 2021-Present
- Advisors: Dr. Randall Beer, Dr. Eduardo Izquierdo
- Committee Members: Dr. Olaf Sporns, Dr. John Beggs
Research Areas
*contact me if you are interested in collaboration!- Neural Parameter Space Degeneracy: there are many ways to configure a nervous system's components to produce the same desired outcome (a.k.a. adaptive behavior)
- How is the variability between the neural parameters of individuals structured? Do organisms actually make use of all theoretically acceptable configurations of their components?*
- How do processes like development, neuromodulation, disease, and homeostatic plasticity, change a system's position in that space of possibilities? For better or worse?
- The nature of degeneracy means that organisms have limited information about their current state. Can they still effectively guide their behavior despite this limitation?*
- How can organisms balance their robustness to unwanted external perturbations, while responding flexibly to their environment when appropriate?*
- Motor Pattern Generators: Rhythmic movements are essential in most brain-body-environment systems
- Many rhythmic motor patterns (e.g. the Aplysia feeding cycle) exhibit cycle-to-cycle variability. What kinds of environmental perturbation might underly this variability, and what kinds would be "averaged away"?*
- Olfaction requires thatregular breathing rhythms be co-opted for sniffing. What is the mechanism behind this control, and how is it shaped by incoming odor information to produce adaptive behaviors like navigation and source differentiation?
- What tools from dynamical systems theory are most useful for describing these patterns in situated, embodied organisms?
Skills
- Coding Languages
- Python
- C++
- Mathematica
- MATLAB
- R
- Mathematics
- Ordinary & Partial Differential Equations
- Information Theory
- Linear Algebra
- Statistical Analysis
- Scientific writing
- Agent-based modeling
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