About
I am a recent graduate from McGill University's Neuroscience program, focusing on neural physiology and computation. Over the course of my degree I became more and more interested in computer science, and how it relates to the way our brains process incoming sensory information in order to convert it to motor output. For this reason I took some computer science courses at McGill in programming and software systems, thereby becoming proficient in Java, HTML, CSS, C, Python, Bash, and MATLAB. My minor was in world religions, focusing on Buddhism. I found these studies to be both interesting, and complimentary to neuroscience as I worked to understand the philosophy and science behind religious experience and thought.
Throughout and prior to my bachelor's degree I worked in several neuroscience research labs, performing experiments and procedures on humans, live animals, and with DNA. I was also expected to handle large volumes of data using Microsoft Office software and to analyze it with SPSS or MATLAB. Because of both my education and lab experience, I became proficient with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.
While I grew up in BC and my first language is English, I studied in french immersion for six years, and have lived in Montreal for five. This experience has rendered me fluent in French as well as English.
My interests include hiking, biking, climbing, reading, music, and art. I am particularly interested in art, and have had vector drawn schematics published in the Springer textbook "Cellular and Molecular Control of Neuronal Migration." I also enjoy drawing comics and animals for fun (see Art and Publications tab).