I am a neuroscientist and tool developer with a passion for creating products that make data analysis methods more accessible, interpretable, and reusable.

I am currently the senior director of data products and analytics at Inscopix (a Bruker company), where I oversee groups of computational scientists, data engineers, and software engineers who build software products for enabling and accelerating neuroscience research.

My previous industry experiences include building a machine learning software product to improve preclinical rodent behavior screening (Blackbox Bio), working as a senior data scientist to create data products that government and healthcare authorities use to drive policy decision making (LiveStories, now FORWARD), and advising as a machine learning product consultant for a variety of start-ups (with Madrona Venture Labs).

In academia I was an early member of Brian Chen’s lab at McGill, where I leveraged genetic trickery to tease apart how specific molecules mediate synaptic targeting during development in fruit flies. I went on to do PhD in neuroscience at Harvard, where I joined Bernardo Sabatini’s lab. Armed with microscopes, lasers, electrodes, and code I investigated how specific circuits of neurons in the rodent basal ganglia enable actions and behaviors that are learned, refined, remembered, and sometimes forgotten.