Ploy is an undergraduate researcher and junior at Harvard College.

Ploy is working on two main projects: The first is comparing how humans and mice make decisions under uncertainty. The second is focused on understanding how reward related dopamine signals shape behavior in mice playing a timing game.

Publications:

• AE Hamilos, IC Wijsman, Q Ding, Pichamon (Ploy) Assawaphadungsit, Z Ozcan, and JA Assad. A mechanism linking dopamine’s roles in reinforcement, movement and motivation. biorXiv, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.04.647288

Education:

• (anticipated) 2025: BA, Applied Mathematics and Economics, Harvard College