Education
PhD in Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology (2015 - 2021)
- Maior: Cognitive Aging
- Minor: Quantitative Methodology
- Advisor: Chris Hertzog, PhD
MS in Experimental Psychology, Villanova University (2013 - 2015)
- Thesis Advisor: Thomas Toppino, PhD
BA in Psychology and English (Literature), University of North Carolina Wilmington (2008 - 2012)
- Departmental Honors in Psychology
- Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Toth, PhD
Experience
Research Psychologist, Air Force Research Laboratory (2022 - present, Wright-Patterson AFB OH)
- As a Research Psychologist (DR-02), I integrate behavioral and neural data with computational techniques to understand human performance. I work in the Airmen Systems (RH) directorate within the 711th Human Performance Wing at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Cognitive Modeler, Cubic Defense, Inc. (2021 - 2022, Wright-Patterson AFB OH)
- I worked with researchers at the 711th Human Performance Wing at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to examine behavioral and computational accounts of human cognition, such as the effects of fatigue during sustained vigilance tasks. I used a wide variety of modeling techniques, such as ACT-R and multilevel modeling, to capture individual differences in memory and attention.
Graduate Student Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology (2015 - 2021, Atlanta GA)
- As a graduate student at Georgia Tech, my primary research focus was age differences in episodic memory and memory awareness (metamemory). I helped design, run, and examine the results of behavioral studies that ranged from simple paired-associates learning to large-scale word norms using a number of statistical and computational techniques. Along with my research, I designed a graduate-level statistics lab curriculum that focused on the use of the R programming language.
Publications
See my list of publications here.
Grant Money and Awards
- Best Talk Award (with C. Fisher; $250) - Virtual MathPsych/ICCM (2024)
- 711th Human Performance Wing Chief Scientist Seedling Grant ($75,000) - Air Force Research Laboratory (2024)
- 2023 Top 10 Publication - 711th HPW, Air Force Research Laboratory (2023)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor- School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology (2020-2021)
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant Recipient (T32; 2017-2021)
- Travel Award Recipient ($1,500) - Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium (Irvine, CA), National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (2019)
- Microsoft Azure Research Award - March-December 2018 ($2,000)
- IEEE Data Bank Competition 2017 (Cambridge, MA) - 3rd Place ($200)
- Graduate Travel Award ($1,500) – The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (2016)
- Graduate Travel Award ($1,000) – The Psychonomic Society (2015)
- Graduate Studies Student Service Award, Villanova University (2013-2014 & 2014-2015)
- Graduate Studies Travel Award ($1,500), Villanova University (2014)
