Research

Presentations

• “Pupil size predicts memory for emotionally charged events during narrative processing” Presented at Biological Sciences Division Quantitative Biology Summer Fellowship Symposium, Chicago, October 5, 2025.

• “An Analysis of One Solution for Earworms: The Characteristics of Earworms and ‘Cure Tunes’” Presented at Japanese Psychological Association, Presentation battle for university and high school students, Tokyo, Japan, September 2022.

• “Characteristics of Earworms” Presented at Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School in front of 800+ students and faculty; was one of the six out of 400 students chosen to present, Tokyo, Japan, April 2022.

• “Characteristics of Earworms” Presented at Tokyo Gakugei University, National University Corporation, Presentation of SSH/SGH/WWL research results, Tokyo, Japan, February 2022.

Ongoing Research

1. How does emotional valence affect our memory? (advised by YC Leong)
2. Can we decode fMRI data to semantics and does it generalize across different people? (advised by YC Leong)