Education

• Ph.D in Cognitive Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University, 2025 (expected)
• B.A. in Biology and Philosophy, Minor in Cognitive Science, Williams College 2018

Work experience

• Post-baccalaureate Research Fellow | 2018 - 2020
  • Intramural Research Training Award, National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Bethesda, MD
  • Duties included:
    • macaque behavioral training and testing
    • macaque single unit electrophysiological recording
    • human online behavioral testing
    • human functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • Supervisors: Dr. Leslie Ungerleider, Dr. Xiaomin Yue, Dr. Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam

Skills

• Programming Languages
  • Matlab | proficient
  • R | proficient
  • Python | experienced
  • html | learning
  • javascript | learning

Poster Presentations

• Robert, S. R., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., Ungerleider, L. G., Motion-based object category responses in the human brain. (Virtual) Vision Sciences Society, FL, June 2020.

• Robert, S. R., Yetter, M., Yue, X., Ungerleider, L. G., Electrophysiological investigation of posterior curvature-biased patch in monkeys. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago IL, October 2019.

• Robert, S. R., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., Ungerleider, L. G., Objects can be categorized based on motion alone. National Institute of Mental Health Training Day, Washington DC, Sept. 2019.

• Robert, S. R., Yetter, M., Yue, X., Ungerleider, L. G., Electrophysiological investigation of posterior curvature-biased patch in monkeys. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete’s Beach FL, May 2019.

• Robert, S. R., Yetter, M., Yue, X., Ungerleider, L. G., Electrophysiological investigation of posterior curvature-biased patch in monkeys. National Institutes of Health PostBaccalaureate Poster Day, Washington DC, May 2019.

• Robert, S. R., Yetter, M., Yue, X., Ungerleider, L. G., Electrophysiological investigation of posterior curvature-biased patch in monkeys. National Institute of Mental Health Training Day, Washington DC, September 2018.

Publications

Curvature processing in human visual cortical areas

Yue, X., Robert, S., & Ungerleider, L. (2020). "Curvature processing in human visual cortical areas." NeuroImage. 222, 117295.

Curvilinear features are important for animate/inanimate categorization in macaques

Yetter, M., Robert, S., Mammarella, G., Richmond, B., Eldridge, M. A., Ungerleider, L. G., & Yue, X. (2020). "Paper Title Number 2." BioRxiv.

Teaching

Library Research Assistant

Academic Tutor

Teaching Assistant

Curriculum Development Education Outreach Intern

Service and leadership

• Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams