I'm a neuroscientist in training who is interested in studying human decision-making. I'm deeply fascinated with the cognitive limitations as boundaries of rationality in decision-making. Particularly how the human ability (or lack thereof) to conceptualize abstract problems or decisions with temporally-distant consequences, influences decision-making. These apply to high construal level problems as with highly pressing challenges including climate change, overpopulation, and long-term policies. I aspire to investigate these limitations with a neuroeconomics approach, focusing on neural underpinnings of delay discounting, and risk evaluation.

I recently graduated from the University of Alberta with a BSc (Specialization) in Psychology. I'm currently a full-time research assistant under Dr. Jacqueline Cummine at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta. My research is mostly in the areas of cognitive and social neuroscience, where I have used fMRI and EEG to investigate neural processes of reading, speech, statistical learning, and social decision-making.

I first began my undergraduate in a clinical psychology program where I gained experience working with individuals with mental disorders in a psychotherapy setting. This is where I developed a strong interest in sources of irrational thinking such as cognitive distortions, logical fallacies, and biases (both in abnormal and normal populations) that eventually directed my interest towards behavioural economics and the neuroscience behind decision-making.