I am a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern's Center for Robotics and Biosystems in the SeNSE Lab. I study how tactile information is encoded at the interface between biomechanics and neural processing using a variety of tools, including neuromechanical simulation, biomechanical modeling, neural recordings, behavioral analysis, machine learning, and bio-inspired robotics. My current projects include developing neuromechanical simulations of peripheral sensory encoding in the rodent whisker system, analyzing head-whisker coordination during natural behavior, and quantifying the 3D statistics of natural tactile scenes.

I received my Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara in September 2024, where I was a graduate student researcher in the RE Touch Lab. I developed data-driven computational methods to understand the neuromechanical processes underlying touch in the human hand and to advance technologies that interface with the human sense of touch.