Mentorship
Having been blessed with amazing mentors and collaborators, I deeply believe that good science comes from communication and collaboration. I'm passionate to pass on what I've learned to my own mentees!
So far, I have mentored 4 undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University and 2 summer interns at the Lab for Child Development. My mentees usually work closely with me on one or two of my projects. My mentorship statement will be linked here soon!
Teaching
Communicating knowledge is a skill that improves only through practice
In Fall 2025, I led lab sections for Research Methods in Psychology at Johns Hopkins. The role gave me extensive experience delivering short lectures, running in-class discussions, guiding R programming sessions and workshops, and helping students turn broad interests into workable research questions. I supported students through detailed written feedback and one-on-one meetings as they designed projects on topics ranging from mental well-being to musical learning (extremely intresting questions outside my usual research area!)
In Spring 2026, I gave a guest lecture, “Watch Out for the Visual Cliff!”, in Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, a course enrolling about 400 students. The lecture focused on discussing the classic work by Dr. Gibson and Walker, where I introduced students to the foundational debates about "nature versus nurture", while also providing them an example case on how research programs are built (by testing a question from multiple angles, eliminating alternative explanations, and expanding the strength and scope of the claim).
Outreach
I spoke at the Johns Hopkins Psychological & Brain Sciences Undergraduate Steering Committee Research Panel on April 9, 2026, where I shared my research and discussed what it is like to work in a psychology lab. The event was designed to help PBS undergraduates get an early sense of research life and prepare for future lab experience.