I am a Ph.D. student in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

I am advised by Dr. Nancy M. Amato as part of the Parasol Lab.

My research is part of the MiV Project, which seeks to harness in vitro neurons for computation. I focus on using foundation models to understand how to interact with and control these biological neural networks.