I’m a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley-UCSF in the Chang lab. Broadly, I study how speech and language is processed in the brain. My current work is focused on how long-term language experience affects representations of speech sounds in the superior temporal gyrus. My graduate studies are supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the H2H8 Fellowship, and the UCSF Discovery Fellowship.

As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, I studied Cognitive Science and Computer Science. I was a research assistant in the Knight lab, where I worked with Arjen Stolk on a communication study focused on the neural correlates of non-verbal human communication. You can play the communication game used in this experiment here.

I also enjoy science communication and the arts. I am particularly proud of an explainer video I made with labmate, Deb Levy, which won the Cognitive Science Society’s Mind Challenge. Check it out here.

My CV can be found here. If you’d like to reach out, please contact me at ibg [at] berkeley.edu.