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PhD in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning

Imperial College London

• Funded by Imperial College London President's PhD Scholarship

MSc in Machine Learning

University College London

• Dean's List Laureate awarded to top 5% of graduating class
• Awarded UCL Friends and Alumni Association Scholarship

BSc in Computer Science, in Neuroscience, minor in Music

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Graduated with Honors in Neuroscience
• Honors Carolina Laureate
• Carolina Research Scholar

Research Assistant

ETH Zürich Department of Computer Science

• Lab of Dr. João Sacramento
• Studied the use of hypernetworks for meta-learning

Master's Student

University College London Department of Computer Science

• Lab of Dr. Jun Wang, co-supervised by Dr. Matthew Crosby and Dr. Pedro Mediano
• Studied the partial information decomposition of multitask neural networks across varying task settings in supervised and reinforcement learning models

Research Intern

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brain and Cognitive Sciences

• Lab of Dr. Tomaso Poggio
• Participated in the MIT Summer Research Program for two summers
• Worked on adversarial reprogramming recurrent neural networks with the goal of repurposing them to operate in a novel task domain (from text classification to image classification)

Teaching Assistant

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Mathematics

• Introduction to Research in Network Data Science (Math 190)
• Gave lectures on deep learning
• Organized and lead weekly in-class discussions on assigned readings
• Assisted with in-class coding exercises
• Held weekly office hours

Research Assistant

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Mathematics

• Lab of Dr. Peter Mucha
• Conducted statistical research analyzing changes in neural morphology of infant fMRI data

Research Assistant

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

• Lab of Dr. Sylvia Fitting
• Conducted behavioral research in animal models, studying HIV-1 Tat's effects on operant conditioning tasks and how endocannabinoids can be used to protect against assessed behavioral deficits

2023 Analytical Connectionism Course at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit

London, United Kingdom

Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science's Modelling Consciousness Workshop

Dorfgastein, Austria

Sinergia Meeting 2022

Bern, Switzerland

UCL & PSL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition

London, United Kingdom

MIT Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course

Cambridge, United States