David is an MD-PhD student in the Neurobiology and Behavior program at Columbia working in the Kahn and Shadlen labs. Originally from Westfield, New Jersey, David received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Jazz. After graduating from WashU, he characterized how brain activity during movie-watching is related to psychopathology, genetics, and the brain’s intrinsic functional architecture as a lab manager with Dr. Avram Holmes at Yale University and as a rotation student with Dr. Gaurav Patel at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In the Kahn and Shadlen labs, David studies the biological bases of contextual decision-making using calcium and BOLD imaging techniques. When not in lab, he enjoys not reading Infinite Jest and (sometimes) having large language models write his lab website blurb for him.
Graduate Student