I am a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the LearnLab and the OAK Lab in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. I graduated in 2020 with my BSc in Brain & Cognitive Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My research focuses on discovery learning: the acquisition of relational rules in instruction-less contexts.

Over the past five years this work has investigated the environments that facilitate discovery for adults, children, and non-human primates. My dissertation work specifically examines how metacognitive factors like certainty in the information available shape the way learners navigate a problem and regulate their own discovery process.