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My work examines how learning, memory, and decision-making seamlessly integrate across brains, minds, and machines. Such interdisciplinary research spans topics in cognitive science, neuroscience, data science, and education. While my research is foundational, it is designed to inform clinical research across a wide range of conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, aging, and addiction.
I'm currently affiliated with UC Irvine and the Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, and I collaborate broadly with laboratories with expertise including statistics, human behavior, AI, and electrical engineering. I co-founded ContinualAI to advance research in artificial intelligence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was an early member of the GCCR, conducting foundational neurological research.
I am a National Science Foundation research fellow, UCI pedagogical fellow, and Chancellor’s Club fellow, which has allowed me to explore what I’m most curious about. The dots connect best in retrospect: some of my work has informed disease and healthcare policy in Denmark, improved AI training at Amazon, facilitated manufacturing in Croatia, and aided urban waste collection in Spain.
I believe the scientific method is humanity’s best invention.