People
PRAXIS is run by students. Officers keep the society going, every member does original research, and two advisors back the work.
President · Founder
Psychology undergraduate at USC and NIH UGSP Scholar. Works on measures of mood that rely less on patients describing their own symptoms, starting with the voice.
Fun factShoots portraits and landscapes on a Fujifilm X-T2 and reads maps for fun. Most wants to see Socotra.
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Vice President · Research lead
Applied Mathematics and Cognitive Science undergraduate at USC, working on nonverbal signal engineering and human interaction modeling. Hosts the PRAXIS podcast and journal club.
Fun factLoves roller coasters, the more thrilling the better.
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Treasurer · Head of growth
Undergraduate at USC studying Applied and Computational Mathematics and Business Administration. Interested in technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and interdisciplinary research.
Head of Operations
M.S. student in Biomedical Engineering at USC. B.S. in Electrical Engineering, California State University, Bakersfield (2025).
Research associate
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics undergraduate at USC. Built a low-cost fNIRS system for mental health applications; interested in turning computational research into accessible clinical tools.
Research associate
M.S. student in Biomedical Engineering at USC; B.S. in Bioengineering from Stanford. Interested in neural circuits, electrophysiology, and stem cell-based models of neuropsychiatric disease.
Research associate
Computational Neuroscience junior at USC. Co-author of the ClinicalWhisper preprint.
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Research associate
Applied Mathematics and Data Science undergraduate at USC. Works on AI evaluation and probabilistic modeling, with projects in psychological assessment retrieval.