about me.
Wasita Mahaphanit
postdoc @ NYU & Mt. Sinai

about me.

Wasita Mahaphanit
postdoc @ NYU & Mt. Sinai
I am a postdoctoral researcher at NYU and the Center for Computational Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, working with Mark Ho and Shawn Rhoads, respectively.
I completed my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth in summer 2026, where
I worked with Luke Chang in the Computational Social Affective Neuroscience (COSAN) Lab, and collaborated with Robert Hawkins, who runs the Social Interaction Lab at Stanford, and Jonathan Phillips. See my research interests page for more details.
Prior to graduate school, I worked as the lab manager of Michael J. Frank's Lab of Neural Computation + Cognition. My research focused on understanding how humans learn and make
decisions under uncertainty, particularly in psychiatric contexts, with a
focus on OCD. Before that, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant
in Amitai Shenhav's Lab, where I studied performance monitoring and cognitive control during
task-switching.
I was born in Thailand, grew up in Maine, and then lived in Rhode Island for several years for college and work. Outside of research, I enjoy ruminating while showering, snowboarding, cuddling with my kitty Joji (pictured above), and playing video games (currently Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, and Slay the Spire 2). In a past life, I practiced aerial hoop. Nowadays, I attend UVCC workshops when I can.
xoxo wasita
