I am a translational decision neuroscience researcher and faculty member (Instructor) in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. My primary appointment is at the Center for Computational Psychiatry with Laura Berner, and I am affiliated with the Computational Psychiatry Unit at Yale Medicine with Xiaosi Gu. I completed my Ph.D. in Decision Psychology in the Neuroeconomics Laboratory at The Ohio State University with Ian Krajbich.
My research asks: "How do people decide what to value?" I study both how people learn about value ("Which product should I buy?") and how they adapt when those values shift ("How should I choose at a fancy supermarket versus a dollar store?") — in consumer goods, social interactions, and mental illness. My primary tools are computational modeling, functional MRI, and real-time neurochemical recording.