About me

I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech, where I also received my M.S. in Human Development in Spring 2024.

My research program focuses on understanding how children’s self-regulation and temperament shape media use across development, with a particular emphasis on early childhood. My ongoing work examines associations between maternal emotion regulation and toddlers’ interactive and non-interactive media use, as well as relations between effortful control and media use during the first five years of life.

Across my doctoral training, I am examining how temperament and self-regulation relate to problematic media use from preschool through middle childhood and adolescence. I am also using person-centered approaches to identify self-regulation profiles among preschool-aged children.

In addition to observational and survey-based research, I am currently involved in the design and evaluation of an AI-supported parent–child shared reading platform aimed at promoting positive parent–child interactions in early childhood.

I am currently a graduate research assistant in the Cognitive Developmental Science (CoDeS) Lab at Virginia Tech.

You can find my CV here.

Recent news

• November 2025: Delivered a talk at the 25th Occassional Temperament Conference.
• September 2025: Published a new article in Early Education and Development. Click for the article!
• July 2025: Delivered a talk at the 2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress. Click for the abstract!
• May 2025: Poster presented at the SRCD 2025 Conference.
• May 2024: Obtained the M.S. in Human Development at Virginia Tech. Click for the thesis!
• May 2024: Published a new article. Click for the article!
• April 2024: Awarded the Outstanding Master’s Student Award at Virginia Tech. Click for the news!
• March 2024: Poster presented at the CDS 2024 Conference. Click for the abstract!