I study how primate brains encode social intelligence and how these principles can inform artificial ones. I'm co-advised by Konrad Kording and Michael Platt .
My research combines neuroscience , machine learning , and animal behavior to model natural social behavior from multiple data streams, including neural, video, and audio data.
I went to college at the University of Miami, where I studied Neuroscience and Economics. I then briefly worked as a Psychometrician before grad school.
Dec 2025
🎉 Awarded Gemini Academic Program credits to support our AI for behavior modeling work.
Dec 2025
🗞️ Our synthesis on primate neuroethology was featured in Big Think !
Dec 2025
Gave a guest lecture on (AI for) primatology at Marc Schmidt & Yun Ding’s Animal Behavior course at UPenn. Slides here .
Oct 2025
PrimateFace accepted to NeurIPS AI for Animal Communication Workshop (oral) and Foundation Models for the Brain and Body Workshop (poster)!
Sep 2025
📝 Published Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis on why we should study primate behavior in real-world conditions.
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Oct 2023
📝 Preprinted work on information gathering during human and monkey reward foraging .
Aug 2023
📈 Presented Quantifying grooming in paired macaques at Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution, and Neurobiology Gordon Research Conference.
Jul 2023
📝 Preprinted work on LLM-assisted education tool to provide feedback on open-ended responses .
Jun 2023
📈 Presented PrimateFace at the CVPR CV4Animals workshop.
Mar 2023
📈 Presented Quantifying grooming in paired macaques at American Physical Society Spring meeting.
Jan 2023
Served as Teaching Assistant for the UG course Neuroethology (BIBB 233 @ Penn).
Dec 2022
🇶🇦🇦🇷 Completed short research stint in Qatar.
Sep 2022
Served as Teaching Assistant for the UG, MA course Statistics for Biologists (BIOL 2510 @ Penn).
Aug 2022
🎉 Awarded (but did not accept) the Travel Scholarship for the SACNAS National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference.
Jul 2022
📈 Presented Neural Basis of Macaque Social Repertoire at Neurobiology & Cognition Gordon Research Conference.
Jun 2022
🐒 Attended the Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior in Lisbon, Portugal!
May 2022
🎉 Passed my PhD candidacy exam!
May 2022
🎉 Awarded the Penn Jameson-Hurvich Travel Award.
Jan 2022
Served as Teaching Assistant for the UG and MA course Deep Learning for Data Science (CIS 522 @ Penn).
Sep 2021
Served as Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate (UG) course Statistics for Biologists (BIOL 446 @ Penn).
Sep 2021
🎉 Awarded the NRSA T32 NIDCD-NIH Training Grant in Audition and Communication (CANAC) .
May 2021
🎉 Awarded the Generation Google – North America Scholarship !
May 2021
🗞️ Served as Computational Co-Chief for Brain in Briefs at Penn.
May 2021
🔬 Officially joined the Kording and Platt Labs as a co-supervised PhD Student.
May 2021
🧠 Completed rotation in the Kording Lab !
Mar 2021
🎉 Received Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.
Dec 2020
🐒 Completed rotation in the Platt Labs !
Oct 2020
📈 Presented Deep learning for primate non-human primate movement tracking at Neuromatch Conference.
Sep 2020
🎓 Started my PhD in Neuroscience as a William Fontaine Fellow at University of Pennsylvania!
Jul 2020
💻 Completed Neuromatch Academy’s Computational Neuroscience program .
Jun 2020
💻 Completed Stanford University’s Code in Place program .
May 2019
🎓 Received B.S. in Neuroscience, Economics from University of Miami!
May 2018
🎉 Inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society at University of Miami.
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