After studying Psychology at Haverford College, I completed a Neuroscience MSc at Oxford University. I'm currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University.

I'm interested in how we learn new information and how the brain organizes related ideas. In my dissertation research, I am using computational models of how artificial neural networks learn information to predict how human brains learn over time. I want to apply our understanding of how humans learn and make decisions in order to help people make better decisions about the future.

I am also the founder of Princeton Effective Altruism (EA) and am currently pursuing research questions relevant to the EA community. Projects include investigating how people measure the value of other people's lives (my work will be featured in William MacAskill's upcoming book!), how we can convince people to donate to more effective charities and exploring risk taking attitudes in synthetic biologists working with infohazards. 

In my free time I consult for Open Philanthropy Project, 80k hours, and train my biological neural network (very cute daughter born in 2020). 

Current advisors: Jonathan Cohen, Kenneth Norman. Past Advisors: Aaron Bornstein, Glyn Humphreys, Mark Stokes, Jared Medina