I am an assistant professor (starting) at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I recently completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh (2024–2025) and at the Centre for Philosophy & AI Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2023–2024). Before that, I completed my doctorate in philosophy with doctoral minors in neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Arizona under the co-supervision of Sara Aronowitz and Mark Timmons (Spring 2023).
I specialise in the philosophy of neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning from the perspective of general philosophy of science. My research explores the relationships between various forms of explanation, modelling, and analysis in these three fields. A recurring theme in my work is that the tasks that experimenters design for and administer to both natural and artificial systems play a significant role in shaping and scaffolding the ways that we explain, model, and analyse those systems. For instance, they direct us to take different explanatory, modelling, and analytic approaches towards the behavioural responses that they individuate as successes vs. errors.