About
I study how people hold on to what they learn. My work combines classroom field experiments with lab measures of sleep and attention to figure out which study strategies actually survive contact with real schedules and real students. Currently a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive science, working in R and Python and publishing everything I can as open data and open code.
Selected work
Spaced retrieval in real classrooms
2023 – 2025Principal investigator · Two-year field study, 9 public high schools
A two-year field experiment testing whether spaced retrieval practice survives outside the lab, run with 1,400 students across nine schools and ordinary teacher-led lessons.
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Sleep-dependent consolidation of new vocabulary
2022 – 2023Lead researcher · Sleep and Cognition Lab
A within-subjects EEG and behavioral study on whether an afternoon nap protects newly learned vocabulary from interference, with 62 adult participants.
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retentionr — open-source toolkit for forgetting curves
2024 – presentAuthor and maintainer · Open source
An R package for fitting and comparing forgetting curves from repeated-measures learning data, built because every lab I worked in had its own half-broken script for the same job.
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