I’m an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist seeking to understand the nature and functioning of consciousness and metacognition. My research uses a blend of psychophysics, computational modeling, neuroimaging, and neurostimulation to investigate subjective awareness and confidence in visual perception.

A central premise of my research is that it is methodologically crucial to distinguish consciousness and metacognition from correlated, but ultimately dissociable, perceptual and cognitive processes. To that end, I have helped develop analytical frameworks and experimental paradigms that can tease apart consciousness and metacognition from confounding factors such as objective task performance. These tools have helped to pave the way towards a more precise and nuanced understanding of consciousness and metacognition, although there is still much work to be done.

Currently I’m an Associate Project Scientist at the Cognitive & Neural Computation Lab at UC Irvine. I received my PhD in psychology at Columbia University with Hakwan Lau. You can follow my published work here and on Google Scholar.

Although my professional work focuses on investigating awareness scientifically, I also strongly value philosophical and first-person approaches for their essential conceptual and experiential contributions to understanding and engaging with consciousness and the mind.