<aside> 👋 Hey! I’m Mona. I’m a first-year Psychology PhD student in the Computational Affective and Social Cognition Lab (CASCogLab), led by Desmond Ong, at UT Austin.
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I am a first year PhD student broadly interested in the evolution and cultural evolution of emotion. I plan to use computational models to simulate how emotions may evolve, and I want to use various empirical approaches, including NLP and experimental methods, to study the origins of cross-cultural differences in emotions.
Previously, I worked as a lab manager in Joseph Henrich’s Culture, Cognition, Coevolution lab at Harvard University.