2012–2024
USC Brain Stimulation Lab
Directed the USC Brain Stimulation Laboratory, conducting research on tDCS and TMS applications for motor learning, addiction, rehabilitation, and cognitive enhancement.
Projects & Initiatives
A chronological view of the labs, cohorts, tools, and companies I've helped build or run. Each block spans its start year to now (or the year I stepped away).
2013–present
Governor's School Programs
Teaching Intro to Computer Programming and Video Game Development (Unity3D) at the SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics - bridging neuroscience and technology education for advanced high schoolers.
2017–2026
McCausland Center for Brain Imaging
Former Managing Director of the USC McCausland Center - providing cutting-edge MRI infrastructure and expertise for neuroscience research across the university and the broader research community.
2018–present
C-STAR Aphasia Lab
Core investigator at the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery - the NIH-funded program project ($23M+) led by Dr. Julius Fridriksson studying language recovery after stroke. We released the Aphasia Recovery Cohort as an open-source chronic stroke repository.
2019–present
Aging Brain Cohort (ABC)
Director of the USC Aging Brain Cohort - a multimodal lifespan MRI database linking brain structure, function, genetics, cognition, and behavior in healthy aging adults. Open-source data. USC Excellence Initiative ($3.25M).
2020–present
SC-ADRC Neuroimaging Core
Core Investigator for the South Carolina Alzheimer's Disease Research Center neuroimaging program - applying structural and functional MRI to understand Alzheimer's progression, risk factors, and biomarkers.
2023–present
NiiVue & Neuroimaging Tools
Co-investigator on NIH R01MH133701 ($2.1M) extending ezBIDS, NiiVue, and dcm2niix for user-friendly cloud-based neuroimaging interfaces. Making brain imaging data more accessible to the research community.
2024–present
Brainchop
Contributing to Brainchop - an edge-computing ecosystem for deploying neuroimaging AI models directly in the browser. No server needed, no data leaves the user's machine.
2024–present
allt.ai - LLM × Aphasia main project
Co-founder of allt.ai, my primary current research program. We use stroke aphasia - a century of structured lesion-deficit data - as ground truth for mechanistic interpretability of large language models. The paper thread: BLUM (submitted to Patterns), PRISM, SLM, FAULT / INFER / LMN, Cross-Task Fingerprints, Attention Is Not Enough.