I’m a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow with Martyn Goulding at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. I am currently studying the nature of real time sensory inputs measured by peripheral end-organs such as muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs, and how they are utilized by the central nervous system for the learning and execution of precise, accurate movements.

I did my PhD research with Jesse Goldberg at Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University. I studied the role of motor cortex in controlling precise forelimb and lingual movements by developing behavioral tools that provided micron-millisecond resolution of kinematics.

For my Master’s research in the labs of Chris Schaffer and Nozomi Nishimura and Peter Doerschuk at Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, I developed and experimentally validated models of neurovascular blood flow in the murine cortex. I then used these models to make quantitative predictions of flow redistributions following strokes and neural activation.