I'm a postdoctoral fellow working with Sam Norman-Haignere at the University of Rochester, supported by an NIH F32 fellowship. Before that I did my PhD at MIT with Josh McDermott studying the perception of sound textures (e.g., running water, chirping birds, wind blowing, etc.) and their role in auditory scene analysis.

I record from the human brain, measure behavior, and build computational models to understand how we make sense of sound.

Outside the lab I enjoy teaching, outreach and making content about perception under the name psychophyshicks.

Path

1. 2025 – nowPostdoctoral fellowUniversity of Rochester
2. 2017 – 2025PhD, Computational NeuroscienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology
3. 2015 – 2016MS, MathematicsUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
4. 2012 – 2016BS, Mathematics and NeuroscienceUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
5. 2009 – 2012IB DiplomaJefferson County IB School