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Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology

• Advisor: Bria Long

B.S. in Cognitive Science

• Specialized in Machine Learning & Neural Computation
• Minor: Computer Science

Graduate Student

• Object Detection in Egocentric Video: Implemented YOLOE for automated object detection in 868+ hours of infant egocentric video data from BabyView dataset (31 families)
• Cross-Dataset Representational Analysis: Extracted CLIP and DINOv3 embeddings from object images in BabyView vs. THINGS datasets to quantify distributional differences between infant visual experience and contemporary computer vision datasets
• Visual-Linguistic Alignment Analysis: Quantified visual-linguistic alignment in naturalistic infant egocentric video using CLIP model
• Experimental Design: Designed and conducted adult eye-tracking experiments investigating object interaction strategies based on information collection optimality

Lab Technician

• Naturalistic Data Collection: Conducted multimodal data collection with 12-36 month infants and caregivers using head-mounted eye trackers, third-person cameras, IMUs, and lapel microphones in participants' homes
• Multi-sensor Data Fusion: Built Python pipelines to synchronize and process multimodal sensor streams from multiple recording devices
• Pose Estimation: Deployed MediaPipe and OpenPose for hand and face detection in egocentric video streams
• Object Detection: Fine-tuned YOLOv8 for object detection in infant/parent egocentric views
• Speech Processing: Integrated WhisperX for automated transcription and speaker diarization
• Motion Tracking: Generated skeletal motion tracking data for dyads' in-lab toy playing sessions
• 3D Modeling: Created 3D experimental environments and stimuli using Unity, Blender, and Matterport 3D camera

Research Assistant

• Honors Thesis: Completed an honors thesis examining how people communicate abstract physics knowledge between individuals
• Interactive Experiment Development: Built web-based experiments for studying intuitive physics knowledge communication using JavaScript and Node.js
• Natural Language Analysis: Processed and analyzed 480+ participant responses using NLP methods and manual annotation

Research Assistant

• Psycholinguistic Experiments: Built web-based experiments studying the effect of verbal reduplication on event conceptualization in Mandarin Chinese
• Hardware Development: Assisted development of a pen with pressure sensors to record participants' physiological reactions to linguistic stimuli

PSYC 201B Quantitative Methods in Psychology II

PSYC 201A Statistical Computing and Inference from Data I

PSYC 168 Psychological Disorders of Childhood

PSYC 181 Drugs and Behaviors

PSYC 102 Sensory Neuroscience

PSY 371M Introduction to Machine Learning

COGS 189 Brain Computer Interfaces

COGS 101C Language

UC San Diego

• Dora Deng, Mira Maeto

UT Austin

• Elton Martinez, Anagha Kenikar, Jacob Rivera, Ruchi Shah

• National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist Travel Grant, Vision Science Society

• Anderson Travel & Research Award, UC San Diego

• Norman Henry Anderson Fellowship, UC San Diego

• Triton Research and Experiential Learning Scholars Award, UC San Diego
• Distinction in Cognitive Science, UC San Diego

• Provost's Honors, UC San Diego

• HackSC 1st Place in Entrepreneurship, USC