I am starting as an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Pitt in the Fall of 2025. Prior to that, I was a researcher at the US Census Bureau where I work with really big data (hundreds of millions of people!) to better understand how the characteristics of our social environments relate to cognitive adaptations in language, attitudes, and identity-formation. With my research, I aim to uplift voices and diversity within racialized communities, such as MENA.
I completed my PhD in experimental psychology with Dr. Debra Titone at McGill University’s Department of Psychology, where I was affiliated with the Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM). My research was funded by a doctoral grant from the Quebec Research Funds (Fonds de recherche du Québec), and my work on bilingual social networks was funded by an NSERC CREATE Complex Dynamics trainee grant. The primary methods propelling my experimental work are questionnaires (e.g., social network survey and language history questionnaire), behavioral tasks (e.g., self-paced reading, resource allocation), population statistics (e.g., census), and eye tracking (using SR Research’s Eye Link).
- PhD, McGill University
Education & Training
- How does social context relate to thoughts, behaviors, and decisions?
- How can network science quantify the subtle dynamics of social context?
- How can experiences with social diversity relate to cognitive adaptations?
