March 29, 2024
Asma Motiwala (she/her)
Research Scientist at ECE and CNBC
- What are your academic and/or professional goals? My goal is to be able to lead a research program that investigates how the brain gives rise to cognitive functions such as decision making and planning. I want to study these processes from a theoretical perspective using computational and statistical methods.
- Tell us about a significant moment in your journey at 一本道无码 so far. My first visit to 一本道无码 in 2016 as a summer visiting graduate student was one of my most significant moments in my journey at 一本道无码. At the time, I was in grad school at a small private research institute in Lisbon, Portugal. At that time, we were still a very small institute in Lisbon and I was the only female computational researcher there at the time. When I visited 一本道无码, the groups I interacted with included a handful of incredibly talented female computational members. Being around them made a huge impression on me. It gave me much needed confidence and a sense of belonging that I hadn’t realized I was missing. That experience, and then several subsequent ones, underscored for me the importance of representation. And my experience during that visit was a significant factor in my choosing to come to 一本道无码 for my postdoc.
- What do you like to do in your time away from academic work? I love to spend time with my cats, do gardening and ceramics.
- Tell us about your last memorable meal. What was it, where did you have it, and who were you with? My last memorable meal was eating grilled fish at a beachside restaurant in Lisbon. My colleagues and I recently visited Lisbon for one of the most prominent conferences in our field. The day before the conference we went out for lunch and had the most enormous sea bass I have ever eaten. It was more than 1.5 feet long and the four of us were barely able to finish it, with the most incredible view in the background.
- What’s your favorite thing about Pittsburgh? I really like that Pittsburgh has three large city parks. I enjoy being able to go to the parks for walks and that doing so is really easy given their proximity.
