An undergraduate studying mathematics and biology with a concentration in neuroscience; interested in systems neuroscience and dynamical systems.
Summer 2024 – Spring 2025 — St. Olaf College
Mechanisms of auditory eavesdropping in Ormia ochracea, a parasitoid fly
Investigated how flies adapt to changes in host song patterns through behavioral experiments comparing different populations
Recorded from auditory neurons and conducted behavioral experiments to determine what information flies extract from host cricket song patterns
Collaborated with other students to conduct research on and maintain several fly populations
Summer 2023 — St. Olaf College
Dynamics of Costa Rican singing mouse song structure
Characterized differences in note timing between social and solitary contexts
Built a low-parameter model of note timings
Investigated social-context-dependent sources of variance in song length
Summer 2022 — St. Olaf College
Potential retinal mechanisms for magnetoreception in birds and turtles
Analyzed neural data recorded from a multi-electrode array for which we were unsure of how our information of interest may have been encoded
Located and mitigated sources of electromagnetic noise in our experimental setup
Assembled a data pipeline capable of analyzing the large amounts of neural data collected
Summer 2020 - 2021 — Cold Atom Lab, Kirtland AFB, NM
Simulated, built, and tested a high-current op-amp power supply for a cold atom system
Developed and implemented a type of Bayesian optimization algorithm to more efficiently cool atoms in an atomic physics experiment
July 2020 — Center for Excellence in Education
Designed a computational approach for Foldiak’s algorithm, an alternative approach to categorization using neural-inspired unguided learning, for use without prior knowledge of the probabilities of features
Fall 2021 — Present
Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Biology. Coursework includes Dynamical Systems, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Topology