About me

I am a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs. I work on developing neural interfaces for human-computer interaction.

From 2019 to 2021, I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Chang Lab at the University of Calfornia, San Francisco. My work was focused on developing a closed-loop brain-computer interface that synthesizes speech in real-time from decoded neural activity. The end goal is of this work is to provide an efficient and intuitive form of communication to individuals with severe movement and speech impairments.

In 2019, I completed my PhD in the Chang Lab through the Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UCSF. My dissertation incorporated machine learning, linguistics, neuroscience, and signal processing to investigate neural mechanisms underlying natural speech production and develop machine learning algorithms than decode speech from brain (electrocorticography) signals.

My research has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, among other media outlets.

I graduated from Rice University with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 2014.