About Me
I am currently a Research Scientist and Shanahan Fellow at the Allen Institute and University of Washington, co-mentored by Christof Koch (Allen) and Eric Shea-Brown (UW). I work in the Data-Driven Discovery (D3) center and the Brain & Consciousness group at Allen, and am also affiliated with UW's Computational Neuroscience Center.
Prior to joining Allen Institute, I earned my PhD in Statistics from LSE, supervised by Milan Vojnovic and supported by the Lee Family Scholarship. I studied mathematics and statistics at St John's College, Oxford, receiving a master's degree in 2018. I also spent the summer of 2021 at Microsoft Research Asia, mentored by Wei Chen.
Research Interests
From my PhD, I've been working on relational learning: how to learn about individuals from group outcomes, and how to select groups when information is limited. I am interested in the underlying statistical inference, optimization, approximation and learning problems.
At Allen Institute, I study the spatial organization and dynamics of neuronal populations, including cell-type-specific responses to psilocybin. I also developed the Gumbel Dynamical Model (GDM) to capture gradual changes in animal behavior. Building on this work, my long-term goal is to develop world models of interactions among humans, animals, and robots, and use them to guide robots that adapt their assistance through repeated interaction. For more information on my research projects, see my research here.
I also co-founded Maxi, a pet-care company connecting dog owners with care providers.