I am a psychiatry resident at MGH/McLean Hospital. I am passionate about understanding what makes us intelligent and how these processes go awry in mental illness. I am broadly interested in computational psychiatry, particularly at the interface of cognitive science and psychiatry. My current work focuses on how cognitive resource limitations may give rise to psychopathology. I hope to develop and apply resource-rational theories of cognition to better understand, diagnose, prognosticate, predict therapeutic response, and develop new treatments for mental illness.

I received my BS in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech where I worked with Garrett Stanley. I completed my MD/PhD at Johns Hopkins and pursued a PhD with Jeremiah Cohen. I characterized the neural circuitry (particularly cortico-basal-ganglia circuits) underlying flexible decision making. I collaborated with Tricia Janak's lab to better characterize the role of basal ganglia circuits in motivated behavior and Charlie Bradberry’s lab to characterize reversal learning behavior in squirrel monkeys. I currently work with Sam Gershman on resource-bounded rationality.

Outside of my core research focus, I am interested in causal inference (particularly from observational data), statistical modeling, and medical decision making.