My research interests are broadly confined in the subfields of Systems and Computational Neuroscience. Specifically, I am interested in understanding neuronal responses individually and within a circuit, and in turn, how all these intricate interactions influence cognitive processes and behaviors. 

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My research experiences have gone from medical neuroscience research (spinal cord injury rehabilitation) to basic neuroscience research (rat hippocampal neurons' response in virtual reality vs. real world) to more basic neuroscience research (neural circuit underlying navigational decision-making in drosophila larvae). The joke I like to tell myself is that I'm becoming a "vegetarian" scientist. Regardless of the organisms, I love neurons and have always found it a fascinating and challenging problem when it comes to a handful of them. Whether it's listening to neurons sing through tetrodes, watching them glow under functional imaging, sacrificing my own brain cells (hopefully minimally) mining data or understanding the computational models, I am incredibly grateful for the learning opportunities I have been given and cannot imagine living my life without neuroscience. 

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Furthermore, I am looking forward to gaining more specialized knowledge and skills in an interdisciplinary fashion during graduate school. While I have a deep appreciation for the beautiful biology, I consider myself to be intellectually promiscuous (the only good kind of promiscuity) and refuse to be tied solely in one box of thinking. My love for equations, playing with tools, foreign languages, and art are some of the things that are brought together onto this journey with me. 

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Outside of my nerdvana, I like to spend time with family+friends+pets and indulge in visually artistic hobby. I enjoy painting, taking pictures, filming (exploring multi-roles as a model, director, and editor). 

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