Hey there! I’m a PhD student in the Department of Psychology and the Beckman Institute at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Professor Diane M. Beck. Previously, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with minors in Statistics and Neuroscience from University of Minnesota Twin-Cities.

These days I’m working on 1. bridging human visual neuroscience and deep learning to build more robust, noise-resistant vision systems; 2. understanding how our brains predict what we’ll see next and why human vision is so remarkably efficient.

News

• (Spring 2026) Excited to share that I will be joining Prof. Leyla Isik’s lab as a postdoc.
• (Fall 2025) Excited to share that I have been awarded the Scott Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate College at UIUC.
• (May 2025) Excited to share that I have been awarded the 2025 FoVea Travel and Networking Award.
• (May 2025) Excited to share that I will be presenting our work on the critical role of neural manifolds in human visual robustness at VSS 2025 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.