I'm a fourth-year graduate student at MIT working with Professor Aude Oliva and Professor Chris Moore. I did my undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, working with Professor Richard Ivry.

I'm interested in spatial perception, memory capacity, underlying representations of objects and scenes, and how the neural system codes spatial dimensions. When I'm thinking broadly, I like to add in the temporal dimension of encoding, in memory retrieval processes and neural adaptation. When I'm thinking about applications, I think about the optimal ways to present visual information using new digitial technologies so that people can access it, use it, learn it, etc, as fast and easily as possible.

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A small rant, with some predictions:

I think that we should be able to place and position text and images and arrows and diagrams much more easily on a webpage. We imbue space with content and meaning. Putting what we want, where we want, quickly, is an important aspect missing from current webpage making. As such, I think that in the next 5 years we'll see a drastic non-incremental change in the way webspaces are coded. In fact, I think we'll adopt an interface much like PowerPoint .