



2025
- 05/2025: First-authored paper – on selective KOR antagonism and individualized brain systems in mood and anxiety spectrum disorders – is accepted for publication in Neuropsychopharmacology
- 01/2025: Co-authored paper – with the Clinical Brain Lab – is published in Sensors [online][pdf]
- 01/2025: Co-authored paper – with the Bearden Lab – is published in Biological Psychiatry [online]
- 01/2025: Appointed as a Teaching Assistant for the Brain and Behavioral Health (BBH) minor program at UCLA
2024
- 11/2024: Advanced to PhD candidacy
- 09/2024: Appointed as the Student Coordinator for the Neuroimaging Affinity Group (NAG) at UCLA
- 07/2024: First-authored commentary – on an integrated framework for advancing psychosis research – is published in Biological Psychiatry: CNNI [online][pdf]
- 07/2024: Presented her poster at NEURO2024 (Japan)
- 06/2024: Presented her poster at OHBM 2024 (Korea)
- 05/2024: Presented her poster at 2024 SOBP (USA)
- 05/2024: Co-authored paper – with the Bearden Lab – is published in Neuropsychopharmacology [online]
- 03/2024: Received the NEURO2024 Travel Award for Foreign Scientists
- 03/2024: Abstract accepted by 2024 SOBP for a poster presentation
- 01/2024: Abstract accepted by OHBM 2024 for a poster presentation
2023
- 09/2023: Officially joined the Bearden Lab for her thesis research
- 06/2023: Completed her first year at UCLA
- 04/2023: Presented her poster at 2023 SOBP (USA)
- 04/2023: Started her third lab rotation in the MontiLab
- 03/2023: Abstract accepted by 2023 SOBP for a poster presentation
- 01/2023: Started her second lab rotation in the Brain Connectivity and Cognition Lab
2022
- 12/2022: First-authored paper – about 24-h movement behaviors and health indicator in early adolescence – is out in JAH [online][pdf]
- 09/2022: Started her first lab rotation in the Bearden Lab
- 09/2022: Started her PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA
- 08/2022: Received the Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award from UCLA
- 08/2022: Graduated from NUS with a Master’s in Computing with a focus on Artificial Intelligence
2021
- 06/2021: Presented her poster at 2021 OHBM (Virtual)
- 06/2021: Joined the Meditation Research Group at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School as a Graduate Intern
- 06/2021: Became the WebGuru for the Society for Neuroscience Singapore Chapter (Revamped Website)
- 05/2021: Joined Neuroglee Therapeutics as a Cognitive Scientist
- 04/2021: Became the Newsletter Editor for the Society for Neuroscience Singapore Chapter (Subscribe)[Past Issues]
- 04/2021: Datature launched its no-code computer vision and deep learning platform on ProductHunt
- 03/2021: Abstract accepted by 2021 OHBM for a poster presentation
2020
- 09/2020: Became the Centre Representative for the Centre for Sleep and Cognition (CSC) at SfN-SG
- 08/2020: Started the Master of Computing (Artificial Intelligence) program at NUS
- 07/2020: Participated in Neurohackademy – Data Science and Neuroimaging Hackathon
- 07/2020: Attended Neuromatch Academy – a summer school for Computational Neuroscience [Certificate]
- 07/2020: Attended 2020 OHBM Education Courses
- 07/2020: Received her Professional Certificate in Data Science from HarvardX [Certificate]
- 06/2020: Participated in the 2020 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
- 05/2020: Participated in the 2020 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting
- 02/2020: Joined the Sleep and Cognition Laboratory at National University of Singapore as a Research Associate
2019
- 11/2019: Datature won Top 12 Global Start-up in Slingshot 2019 [Media]
- 08/2019: Became a member of Society for Neuroscience: Singapore Chapter
- 06/2019: Presented her poster at the 2019 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
- 03/2019: Datature won the Rolls-Royce Data Innovation Challenge [Media]
- 01/2019: Joined Clinical Imaging Research Centre as a Data Scientist in the MRI Operations Image Analysis Team
2018
- 12/2018: Joined Datature as a Data Analyst
- 06/2018: Presented her poster at the 2018 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (Singapore)
2017
- 12/2017: Her second co-authored paper – with Dr. Sam Gilbert – was accepted by NeuroImage [online][pdf]
- 04/2017: Her first co-authored paper – with the Gopnik Lab – was accepted by PNAS [online][pdf]
2016
- 12/2016: Started her first multi-modal clinical neuroimaging study with Dr. Lee Shu-Hui and Prof. Annabel Chen
- 11/2016: Joined the Clinical Brain Lab at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as a Research Associate
- 10/2016: Graduated from UCL with a master of research degree in Cognitive Neuroscience
2015
- 11/2015: Started her first fMRI study with Dr. Sam Gilbert
- 10/2015: Relocated to London to start the Master of Research in Cognitive Neuroscience programme at UCL
- 05/2015: Graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (departmental honors)
- 04/2015: Submitted her honors thesis
Before 2015
- 05/2014: Became a member of Psi Chi: Berkeley Chapter
- 11/2013: Started her first research project with Dr. Adrienne Wente and Prof. Alison Gopnik
- 10/2013: Joined the Gopnik Lab at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate research assistant