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Research Interests

I seek to study how preschoolers are able to process emotional expressions while looking at different faces using an eye tracking computer and how these looking patterns may be influenced by things such as child temperament and parental affect. Deficits in facial and emotional recognition can lead to future diagnoses later in life, as social deficits tend to be core to most psychiatric diagnoses. I am also interested in using EEG to understand how neural similarities between parent and child may be indicative of their relationship quality.  

Computer Programs

R/RStudio  SPSS   Brain Vision Analyzer    Python     Geodesic NetStation    Microsoft Suite  Insqcribe  Datavyu     REDCap Google Suite   Qualtrics    iMovie    

Lab Experience

Aug 2021-Present

Graduate Student Assistant | Cognitive Development Lab at College of Staten Island

  • Work as a research assistant on projects involving infant and children’s social development and cognitive development

  • Complete training in multiple physiological methods such as EKG, skin conductance, and eye tracking

  • Help administer adult eye tracking study

  • Assist other research assistant with infant and child participants as needed

  • Analyze behavioral and eye tracking data in SPSS

Jan 2022-Present

Graduate Student Assistant | Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab at The Graduate Center

  • Work as a research assistant on multiple projects involving language learning and EEG

  • Conduct EEG data collection sessions and later cleaning and analysis of the data

  • Researcher on EEG studies using preschoolers, adults, and geriatric populations

Sept 2019-July 2021

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow  | Holmes Laboratory at Yale University 

  • Acquire fMRI data for a study in unipolar depression, bipolar depression, and schizophrenia to identify the link between the functioning of large-scale brain networks and dimensional symptom profiles in patients with affective and psychotic illnesses

  • Direct neuro-imaging data collection for NIH RO1 study

  • Recruit, schedule, and consent healthy subjects and patients diagnosed with affective and psychotic illness

  • Helped to code and develop behavioral and self report processing pipelines

  • Assist in the execution of lab managerial duties including maintenance of IRB approvals, management of lab finances and grants, and organization of lab meetings and professional events

June 2018-May 2019

Research Assistant | Infant Studies of Language and Neurocognitive Development 

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  • Worked on study to understand how early home environment impacts trajectories of language and cognitive development and examine how caregiver stress and the home language environment influence early language skills during the first two years of life
  • Stored data and ensured all files are in the correct places and routinely backing up files

  • Recruited potential participants for studies by putting up flyers in businesses and community organizations and attended events for recruitment purposes

  • Assisted head researcher in experimental protocol and calmed baby participant

  • Coded videos with Datavyu and scored surveys from studies 

  • Kept lab website and social media up to date and created content to recruit families to the study

August 2018-December 2018

BELLE Project Intern | NYU School of Medicine/ Bellevue Hospital 

  • Worked on a study to help adapt, develop and assess pediatric health care strategies for low-income families of very young children (age birth-5 years) and utilize parent-child interactions as a tool

  • Inputted, uploaded, and cleaned data for future coding at the counterpart lab in University of Pittsburgh 

  • Recruited mothers and babies for the study from different clinics in Bellevue Hospital clinics

  • Provided childcare when necessary for various children who come in as participants or siblings of participants

Education

2021-2026

City University of New York, The Graduate Center

  • Developmental Psychology PhD

  • Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Wagner

2021-2024

City University of New York, The Graduate Center

  • Developmental Psychology Masters of Arts

  • Thesis: Attention to Threat-Relevant Faces in Preschool-Aged Children and Associations with Fearful Temperament

2015-2019

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development

  • Bachelors in Applied Psychology

  • Minor in Sociology

Extras

HONORS AND GRANTS

  • Psi Chi 2024 EPA Regional Travel Grant ($350),  2024

  • CUNY Academy Travel Award ($325),  2023                

  • CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant ($1,084), 2023

  • CUNY Psychology Program Office 2022 Travel Award ($325), 2022

  • NYU Steinhardt Dean’s List, 2018, 2019                                  

  • NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development Internship Grant ($1,000), 2019​

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Course Assistant/Grader |Children and the Media | NYU Langone Health, Spring 2024-Present

  • Course Assistant/Grader | The Science of Happiness | NYU Langone Health, Spring 2024-Present

  • EEG Teaching Assistant | Seminar in Electrophysiological Methods | CUNY- The Graduate Center, Spring 2024

  • Adjunct Professor | Introduction to Psychology | CUNY- College of Staten Island, Spring 2022- Spring 2023​​

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UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT

  • Executive Committee College of Staten Island Developmental Psychology Student Representative, 2022-Present

  • Admissions Committee, CUNY- The Graduate Center, 2023-2024

  • Executive Board of Jewish Student Connection Group, CUNY- The Graduate Center, 2023-2024

  • Co-President of Psi Chi: National Honor Society in Psychology, CUNY- The Graduate Center, 2022-2024

  • Graduate Student Advocacy Committee, CUNY- The Graduate Center, 2022-2023

  • Teaching & Learning Center’s Hack-a-thon, CUNY- The Graduate Center, 2023                                    

  • Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grant for the Department of Psychology, CUNY- The Graduate Center, 2022

  • Volunteer Judge for the CUNY Research Scholars Program Symposium, CUNY-The Graduate Center, 2022

  • Vice President of Psi Chi: National Honor Society in Psychology, NYU, 2018-2019

  • Co-Editor-in-Chief of Psi Chi Journal: Volume IV, NYU, 2018- 2019           

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS

  • Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology                                                                                      

  • American Psychological Association (APA)   

  • American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS)                                                                                              

  • Eastern Psychological Association (EPA)                                                                                  

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VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE 

Pediatric Neurology Volunteer| Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, February-March 2020 (ended early due to COVID-19)

  • Interact with children who are staying in the neurology unit of the hospital aged 1 month- 18 years old

  • Help children with medical conditions cope with the stress of hospital visits

  • Properly clean and disinfect toys and playroom in the hospital 

  • Assist nurses and doctors as needed 

Community Volunteer| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, October 2019- March 2020

  • Attend community volunteer day once a month to help create safe sex education materials 

  • Assist employees of Planned Parenthood as needed 

Volunteer Teacher| East Harlem Bilingual Headstart / PS 345, August 2016- May 2018

  • Assisted in preschool and kindergarten classrooms of children aged 3-5

  • Read to children and lead circle time activities

  • Tutored children with difficulties in writing and math 

  • Cleaned up after children 

  • Interacted and played with children

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​NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 

Financial Aid Graduate Assistant, CUNY- The Graduate Center, August 2022-Present

  • Greet people and assist with financial aid questions

  • Answer phones and respond to online chat questions

  • Scan and organize student financial aid information

  • Liaison between students and financial aid counselors

Part-time Nanny, February 2018- August 2019

  • Played with and attended to three year old boy 

  • Helped mother with chores and clean-up around the house 

  • Watched infant brother when necessary 

File Clerk/Receptionist, September 2015- January 2017

  • Scheduled meetings and arranged calendars of partners and paralegals 

  • Witnessed contracts (last will and testaments; prenuptial agreements) 

  • Typed information on computers and organize online archive of client documents

  • Answered phones and greet clients before meetings 

Camp Counselor, June 2016- August 2016

  • Leader of a group of children aged 2-3

  • Managed children's behavior throughout the day

  • Modeled constructive participation in daily activities 

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