My research seeks to understand how reality is constructed by the mind and how this process can go awry, leading to perceptual distortions and hallucinations. I study these questions by linking perception with brain function using psychophysics, EEG, and fMRI, with a particular focus on the primary visual cortex (V1) — because its circuit-level properties are arguably better understood than any other region of the human brain. My PhD work at the University of Minnesota examined this system in schizophrenia, including mismatch negativity, alpha oscillations, and visual surround suppression. I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher in Vijay Mittal's lab at Northwestern University, where my work centers on identifying EEG-based biomarkers of psychosis risk to drive next-generation diagnostics and interventions for mental health disorders. Across this work, I most enjoy turning noisy neural data into reliable, reproducible insights using R, Python, and MATLAB.