Academic Work
During my time as a graduate student and experimental researcher, I worked on a variety of projects ranging from remote behavioral testing for older adults to conducting a departmental survey to improve the graduate student experience. Images link to GitHub repositories. You can also see my published work here.
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DEI Climate Survey
The University of Arizona Psychology department wanted to conduct a climate survey to improve the graduate student experience. I took on the project and the results led to many direct changes. The survey is now annual.
By combining the quantitative data with individual anonymized quotes I was able to add nuance to the point and highlight what specifically was (or wasn't) working.
Using a complex research design, we were able to simplify the analysis down to an ANOVA and show that older adults have different exploration preferences than young adults.
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Exploration and Exploitation in Aging
This shows my Master's project comparing older and younger adults decision making bias when choosing whether to explore new choices or exploit choices they already know the value of.
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Neural Activity During Decision-Making
During the NeuroMatch Computational Summer School I attended, I had the opportunity to use cutting-edge analyses to understand brain activity and present the results of our group project.
I was chosen to represent our group and present the results of our project for an audience of scholars who were unfamiliar with the data and techniques we used.