▶️ Neuroscientist + Cybernetician + Storyteller Unconventional yet Relevant ⚙️Humans, machines, and narratives can do so much more together. Working at the intersections of natural and artificial intelligence, health and wellness. Nerd at Nobody Studios (venture studio) In emojis: 🧠🚙〰👩🏻‍🔧📝🌐🌎☀️📊🪄🧪🚲💡⚙️☸️👩🏻‍💻 Welcome to the Ultra Long Bio (escalated pitch): 💭Various glorious intersections. Teaching and volunteering since ripe old age of 6, wrote 45-page single-spaced typed documentary on human behavior for fun in 8th grade. My approach to effective altruism: stay in ethics conversations, use Technology to take as much suffering as possible and invert it! ✨📣🧠 Scientific Advisor, Valence Vibrations (emotion from tone of voice as wristband haptics, an emotional passport). Honoring neurodiversity with @chloeduckworth and @shannon.mb144 👩🏻‍🔬🔁👩🏻‍💻 Earned PhD from OmarLab @ UMich: brain rhythms〰, neural circuits, XR, VR, spatial navigation, sensory processing, sleep, behavior. Rackham Merit Fellow, NIH T32 fellow in hearing, balance, and chemical senses. Bachelor’s in biochemistry + molecular biology. Formerly: 🚙 Intvo (computer vision for pedestrian behavior prediction): Co-Founder, CSO. Humans do not behave like tumbleweeds, so we must consider the situation inside and out of the bounding box! Serving OEMs including Volvo Cars and Denso ☸️Lived in multigenerational community of Zen Buddhist Temple, 22 months as Resident Dharma Worker training w/ Haju Sunim 🤝Cross-dominant. Ambivert. Contrarian. Wordplay pundit. Taught/facilitated biomed DEI ethics discussions for grad students for 3 years 📍Sunnyvale CA (Silicon Valley). 🪄Sharena = (share + arena)/are. Collect to cross-pollinate perspectives between and within fields! Spirit animal: bioluminescent bee sometimes mistaken for a firefly 🐝 ✨ 🛰 @malena_rice is the other Dr. Rice: my astrophysisister at Yale Views = own 💡Also collectable on LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, and Twitter in/sharenarice @sharenarice