I am a PhD candidate in Psychology at Yale University, working with Dr. Maria Gendron in the Affective Science and Culture Lab. My research examines how people identify and make meaning of emotions, and how body, language, and culture scaffold these processes. I use behavioral experiments, naturalistic video paradigms, computational text analysis, and physiological measures to study emotion perception across contexts. Previously, I obtained a BA in Psychology and Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where I worked with Dr. Laura Niemi, Dr. Vivian Zayas, and Dr. Adam Anderson.
Updates
- I will teach a one-week course, The Making of Emotions, with Veritas China.
- I will give a talk at ISRE 2026 in Australia.
- I am participating in the 2026 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Rutgers.
- I received the Phillip Zimbardo Award for Excellence in Dissertation Research in Social Psychology from the Yale Department of Psychology.
- I received the Dr. Kazumi Nishio Research Grant to support my project on expressive writing in the Asian diaspora.
- I received the Yale Women Faculty Forum Seed Grant to support my project on gender asymmetry in hermeneutic labor.
- I presented posters at SPSP and SAS.