Research Assistant

• Sep 2022 - Present

Part of a research team conducting systematic reviews on diversity in psychedelic assisted clinical trials for various mental health/psychiatric concerns such as MDD, TRD, and Eating Disorders. Part of a research team conducting systematic reviews on diversity in psychedelic assisted clinical trials for various mental health/psychiatric concerns such as MDD, TRD, and Eating Disorders.

MRI Technician, UCI Translational Neuroscience Laboratory

• Jul 2022 - Present

- Running structural, functional, and diffusion MRI scans for a longitudinal study on early life adversities; Data analysis on MATLAB for a Hippocampal task. - Co- lead on an NIH funded R01 grant on Anhedonia. Responsibilities include scheduling/consenting participants, administering neuropsychological assessments, creating forms on REDCap, and running fMRI scans. - QC'ing PET Data on fsleyes - Data Entry on REDCap

Research Assistant, UCI Translational Neuroscience Laboratory

• Jan 2022 - Present

- Leading an independent project on the association of age of menopause onset on memory and MTL brain regions.

Peer Integration

• May 2022 - Present

- I am an Affinity Peer Support Volunteer who supports BIPOC callers and texters while they are actively tripping/integrating past psychedelic experiences. - I am an Affinity Peer Support Volunteer who supports BIPOC callers and texters while they are actively tripping/integrating past psychedelic experiences.

Research Assistant, Working Memory and Plasticity Lab

• Oct 2021 - Present

- Leading an independent project on the evaluation of the benefits of gamification to reduce attrition in cognitive training programs for older adults: a meta-analysis - Using transcranial direct current stimulation to assess improvements in working memory performance in healthy older adults.

Research Assistant, Vascular Senescence and Cognition Lab

• Sep 2021 - Present

Teaching Assistant

• Jan 2021 - May 2021

- Assisted Professor Bittu at Ashoka University with his academic course - Advanced Neuroscience - Graded in-class presentations - Prepared weekly quizzes - Held weekly office hours to clear doubts and concerns of students, one-on-one - Proficiently used excel functions to manage student records

Teaching Assistant

• Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

- Assisted Professor Bittu at Ashoka University with his academic course - Introduction to Neuroscience - Graded in-class presentations - Helped students from diverse backgrounds and special needs by translating the course work from English to Hindi and holding individual office hours to go over concepts.

Research Assistant

• Sep 2019 - May 2020

- Got selected as a research volunteer for Dr. An's Lab that studies Social Cognition. - Collected about 300 participants and data for 3 experiments in a span of four months. - Presented existing research papers to exhibit learning skills. - Got selected as a research volunteer for Dr. An's Lab that studies Social Cognition. - Collected about 300 participants and data for 3 experiments in a span of four months. - Presented existing research papers to exhibit learning skills.

Summer Research Assistant

• Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

- Studied sustained attention in kids with ADHD - Recruited 50+ participants along with administering and performing statistical analysis on a Neuropsychological experiment on sustained attention. - Studied sustained attention in kids with ADHD - Recruited 50+ participants along with administering and performing statistical analysis on a Neuropsychological experiment on sustained attention.

Assistant Psychologist

• Dec 2018 - Jan 2019

-Observed occupational therapies of Down syndrome and autistic children. -Developed teaching skills used for children with Slow Learning Disorder. -Observed occupational therapies of Down syndrome and autistic children. -Developed teaching skills used for children with Slow Learning Disorder.

Assistant Psychologist

• May 2018 - Jun 2018

- Observed clients in one-on-one therapy sessions as an assistant to the psychologist. - Efficiently performed psychological tests on clients under the supervision of clinical psychologists - Observed clients in one-on-one therapy sessions as an assistant to the psychologist. - Efficiently performed psychological tests on clients under the supervision of clinical psychologists