I am a PhD student in the Developmental and Brain Sciences Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, working in the Early Minds Lab with Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy and Dr. Erik Blaser. My research focuses on how children strategically balance working memory and external resources using naturalistic paradigms and eye-tracking.

Previously, I worked in the Labs of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital on projects investigating the development of executive functioning in US and Bangladeshi children using EEG, fNIRS, and eye-tracking. I’m interested in the development of early cognitive mechanisms behind memory and attention and how they interact with the environment. My passion lies in methodology, using eye-tracking and neuroimaging for a multimodal perspective on cognition.

In my free time I love trying new foods with my partner and traveling as much as we can. I’m also a plant parent to over 50 plant babies!