Music Cognition & Psychology
Early-Career Mentor Award
August 2022
Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)
This award recognizes members who excel at mentoring others in achieving their career objectives, providing skill-based and socio-emotional support to students, and promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion.
In addition to her extensive mentorship of undergraduate students, she has worked in data science and has volunteered extensive time, effort and expertise to mentoring PhD students hoping to find industry positions [through the Erdős Institute]
She was also the driving force behind the SMPC/Erdős collaboration, helping to create the ongoing and successful music cognition track of their Invitation 2 Industry speaker series and also co-chaired the Future Directions of Music Cognition Conference in 2021
This award recognizes the outstanding nature of her mentorship work, and the importance of mentorship relating to industry career paths
Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor
August 2018—December 2019
The Ohio State University
Co-advised student (with Daniel Shanahan) on end-to-end project development
“Music and emotional perception in listeners with Autism Spectrum Disorder” (Honor’s Thesis in Music Theory, 2019)
Student won the undergraduate “Music Theory Achievement” award, in part because of her thesis
Thesis resulted in a poster presentation at a national conference (Society for Music Perception and Cognition)
Training Research Assistants
August 2018—December 2019
The Ohio State University
Trained and oversaw 18 undergraduate students on running human-centered research in the School of Music, Department of Psychology, and the Center of Science and Industry (COSI).
Mentoring covered topics like forming hypotheses, experimental design, stimulus selection and running human participants. The various research projects included a pharmaceutical study (double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled), machine learning of musical performance (Python-based), a behavioral study (social psychology), and a replication study.
Research resulted in a poster presentation at an international conference (Brain. Cognition. Emotion. Music.)
Research resulted in a proceedings paper for Future Directions of Music Cognition
