Background
I came to computer vision by way of psychology and criminal justice. I studied Psychology and Criminal Justice (with a minor in Computer Science) at Northeastern University, where coursework in cognition, neuropsychology, and statistics got me interested in how people perceive and process the world around them, and eventually, in building systems that could do some of that perceiving themselves. That interest pulled me toward computer vision, and I'm now pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at Columbia University, in the Computer Vision, Graphics, Interaction, and Robotics track, as a Lustgarten-Whitney Family Fellow.
What I work on
Most of my current work sits in 3D reconstruction from limited visual information. Right now that means sparse-view medical imaging (reconstructing CBCT scans from a fraction of the usual views), but the underlying question of how to build a coherent 3D understanding from incomplete input is one I'm interested in more broadly.
There's a second thread running through my work that I'm still pulling on: attention and cognitive state. My research assistant work has touched pupil-EEG coupling and attention-aware BCIs, and on my own time I've been prototyping a gaze-contingent wearable display and building an EEG-to-text decoder with a comprehension signal built in. I'm not yet ready to claim a single unified thesis connecting sparse-view reconstruction and attention-aware systems. I'm still figuring out where those interests actually converge, but wearables and learning environments are where I keep finding myself drawn back to.
Currently curious about
- How pupil dynamics and EEG jointly reflect arousal and cognitive engagement
- What "attention-aware" actually means for a wearable device, and how to build one that behaves accordingly
- Sparse-view and limited-input 3D reconstruction outside of the medical imaging context
Education
Columbia University: M.S. Computer Science (Computer Vision, Graphics, Interaction, and Robotics track), expected Dec 2026. Lustgarten-Whitney Family Fellowship.
Northeastern University: B.S. Psychology and Criminal Justice, minor in Computer Science, May 2024. Dean's List, NU Honors Program, Amelia Peabody Scholarship.
The actually important part
Most important part to know about me is that I am a mother of two orange, devious lions named Speedos and Cheetos. While I catch the bugs in my code, my children debug the ones in my room.