About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a Research Fellow at the Emerging Analytics Center.

I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Milan, Italy (2017). As part of my doctoral research, I spent two years as a visiting Ph.D. student in Dr. Gordon M. Shepherd’s Senselab at Yale University (2015–2016), where I received extensive training in neurobiology and large-scale, biophysically detailed modeling.

Following my doctorate, I joined Cornell University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2017–2020) to advance my expertise in computational modeling of cortical circuits, with a focus on the olfactory cortex and neuromodulation. I then continued my postdoctoral research in Dr. Dieter Jaeger’s laboratory (2020–2024), investigating normal and parkinsonian dynamics of the ventromedial motor thalamus and primary motor cortex using biophysically detailed simulations.