May – August 2026

• August - Began drafting two manuscripts reporting findings from our 2025 Invite Only VR pilot evaluation, integrating quantitative pre-post outcomes, student playtesting focus groups, and school staff interviews.

• August - Preparing for the next phase of the NIH-funded Invite Only VR multi-site trial, including SOPs, school recruitment materials, REDCap infrastructure, participant follow-up procedures, and implementation planning across Connecticut and Massachusetts.

• May - Presented two posters at the Yale Pediatric Research Forum: one evaluating Invite Only VR among middle-school students and another examining middle school students' focus group data about their perceptions of vaping as a way of coping with mental health distress.

• May - Presented findings from our Invite Only VR program evaluation and optimization work at the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 2026 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

January - April 2026

• April - Co-led a workshop on the use of immersive technology for cannabis and nicotine-vaping prevention.

• March - Presented my poster, Evaluating a Virtual-Reality Video Game for Nicotine and Cannabis E-Cigarette Prevention in Middle School Students, at SRNT 2026 in Baltimore.

• March - Gave my first in-person symposium/oral paper presentation at SRNT 2026, presenting findings from my qualitative study on vaping as a way of coping with mental health distress among middle-school students.

• February - Presented my first in-person poster based on my sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth weekly-diary project at SPSP 2026 in Chicago.

• January - My quasi-experimental evaluation of Invite Only VR, including pre-post quantitative data and student and school-staff qualitative data, was accepted for poster presentation at SRNT 2026 in Baltimore.

September - December 2025

• December - Analyzed pre-post data from multi-day school visits to test our Invite Only VR Vaping Prevention Game in R (XRPeds), created, and submitted the final progress report to the Department of Public Health, Connecticut. 

• December - Our systematic review and meta-analysis on LGBTQ+ minority stress, social support, and mental health was published in the Clinical Psychology Review Journal.

• December - Lead and ran multi-day school visits to test our vaping prevention virtual reality game in middle school students across 3 public schools in Connecticut.

• November - My analyses of focus groups showing vaping as a means to cope with mental health distress among middle school students has been accepted for oral presentation at SRNT 2026, Maryland. 

• November - My SGM youth weekly diary study has been accepted for presentation at SPSP 2026.

May - August 2025

• July - Began working as Postgrad Research Associate at XRPeds, Yale School of Medicine.

• June - Completed baseline data-cleaning for Project EQuIP.

• May - Data-analyzed! Presented results during the lab meeting for my weekly diary study.

January - April 2025

• March - Completed data-cleaning and began data-analysis for weekly diary data in R for my manuscript.

• January - Began learning and working on data-cleaning in R for my manuscript on the impact of stigma exposures on minority stress reactions and mental health outcomes among sexual and gender minority youth. 

September - December 2024

• June - Completed data-cleaning and data-analysis in R and presented manuscript results in the lab meeting. 

• November - Presented the project concept for my weekly diary study in the lab meeting.

• October - Began conducting semi-structured diagnostic interviews of participants (EQuIP).

• September - Assigned the Lead RA on Project EQuIP R01. 

May - August 2024

• July - Began working as Postgrad Research Associate at the Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative.

• June - Incoming Postgraduate Research Associate at Yale School of Public Health.

• May - Defended my Master's Dissertation and graduated with my MS in Applied Psychology with First Class distinction!

January - April 2024

• April - Submitted my Dissertation and Internship Report.

• April - Began my duties as Lab Manager PWR Lab at Florida International University (FIU).

• April - Dissertation abstract accepted for poster presentation at the National LGBTQ Health Conference.

• March - Evolve abstract accepted for poster presentation at APS 2024.

• March - Dissertation abstract accepted for poster presentation at SPSSI 2024.

• March - Incoming Lab Manager at PWR Lab at FIU in Summer, 2024 (Remote).

• February - Peer Mentor of 8 Masters Student's Dissertations.

• February - Received Ethical Approval for my Dissertation! Participate now.

• February - Presented 3 studies at SPSP 2024.

• January - Submitted Dissertation* IRB Application.

• January - Began Clinical Psychology Internship at Prerana Hospital, Mysore.

September - December 2023

• December  - Presented an Evolve Study at the 10th ICSPW.

• December - Joined the PWR Lab at FIU as a Research Assistant (PI: Dr. Asia Eaton).

• November - Presented the Diversity Fatigue Study at ABCT Student SIG Exposition.

• September - Presented the Binegativity Study Proposal at the Bisexual Research Group's BRAC Event.

*  In India, a dissertation is submitted during Masters and a thesis at PhD.