I received my doctoral degree from the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where I worked with Prof. Anthony D. Wagner in the learning and memory lab (now @ Stanford). I am currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute post-doctoral associate with Prof. Randy L. Buckner at Harvard University, and a visiting post-doctoral associate with Prof. Christopher I. Moore at MIT.

I seek to understand the dynamic interaction between neural circuits and how these systems-level dynamics give rise to various aspects of brain function.

To advance these goals, my approach takes advantage of whole-brain functional imaging in humans and
animal models. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows us to measure activity in multiple brain
systems simultaneously, and to look at dynamic interactions between regions of the brain.

Recently, I have been taking advantage of opto-genetic techniques that enable cell-type specific optical control of electrical activity at a millisecond resolution. Combined with whole-brain high-field functional MRI and electrophysiology, we are able to study mechanisms governing neural dynamics at the level of the microcircuit and across brain regions.