I am a postdoctoral researcher contributing to the Proofs and Reason project at Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses on discovery learning: the acquisition of relational rules in instruction-less contexts.

My doctoral work at CMU was completed as a member of the OAK Lab and LearnLab in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. I graduated in 2020 with my BSc in Brain & Cognitive Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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