My research utilizes multimodal imaging (fMRI, dMRI, qMRI), computational modeling, and behavioral measurements to investigate human visual cortex. We seek to understand how the underlying neural mechanisms and their anatomical implementation enable rapid and efficient visual perception and recognition. Critically, we examine how the human brain and visual perception change across development to understand how the interplay between anatomical constraints and experience shapes visual cortex and ultimately behavior.
We strive to create a lab that reflects the diversity of our global community and is actively involved in solving scientific and societal problems that affect all of us. I am also involved in the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and the Ophthalmology T32 training grant.