Biography

I am a postdoctoral research fellow with the SIMEXP laboratory at the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM) and a Union Neurosciences et Intelligence Artificielle - Québec (UNIQUE) NeuroAI Excellence Scholarship Winter 2021 postdoctoral awardee at the Université de Montréal. I am also the current Secretary and former Art Exhibit Manager Elect of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping BrainArt Special Interest Group. My current research focused on machine learning, deep learning and neuroimaging methods development for biomarkers discovery in a variety of neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions in multisite data. My currently reseach includes investigation in neurodegenerative disorders associated with aging, such as chronic pain and dementias.

My dissertation work investigated the relationship of brain morphology and oxytocin with chronic pain and pain sensitivity in older adults with the Social-Cognitive and Affective Development Lab and PAIN laboratory at the University of Florida. My master’s thesis investigated age-differential effects of intranasal oxytocin on “social brain” resting state functional connectivity in women.

Prior to my graduate training, I worked as a clinical research associate at Seattle Children’s Research Institute with the Psychology and Beahvioral Systems Lab where I focused on gender differences in autism spectrum disorders using functional neuroimaging. My career in neuroimaging began as an undergraduate student research assistant at the Integrated Brain Imaging Center at the University of Washington in 2012.