hello! i'm
passionate about data analytics, psychology, and game design
"The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite." — Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
I am a product management fellow at the Yale University Data Office.
I graduated in 2026, majoring in Computer Science & Psychology and Statistics & Data Science. I am passionate about using data to make the world a better place.
My other interests include reading, designing small video games, and trying new restaurants.
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research tools
A web-based experiment builder I developed for the Rutledge Lab at Yale. It is designed to let researchers construct and deploy risk taking behavioural experiments without needing to write code themselves. It's now publicly available for anyone to use.
→ open the buildergame development
I am currently working on a thematic pixel platformer. Previously, I've worked on more traditional games such as In My Element and Asset Bubble will GirlyPop, having handled all the code and the art.
I have also worked on experimental projects such as RRT* Chaser, a game built around a robotics path-planning algorithm.
psychology research
I have worked extensively with the Rutledge Lab at Yale, with a focus on risky decision making and dopamine. I have conducted behavioural experiments with real participants to study how seeing your own face compared to another person's face affects your willingness to take risks, investigated how Parkinson's patients differ in their risk taking from healthy participants, and how the progression of neurodegenerative diseases interacts with risk taking behavior.
Such analysis involved extensive use of computational modeling techniques and multiparametric models based on prospect theory and approach avoidance. I won the Robert G. Crowder Undergraduate Research Prize for my work in Parkinson's.
→ read the self perception report → read the poster I co-authored for the Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025 in Germanydata analysis
I have worked on several data projects in my life, such as formalizing speaker point inflation in competitive parliamentary debate, studying temporal healthiness trends in consumer spending habits, and predicting win percentages for curling games based on positional snapshots.
→ check out my grocery healthiness thesis posteroutreach & marketing
I was the lead outreach coordinator for Yale Summer Session for over 2 years, during which I planned and executed multiple marketing campaigns to recruit students to summer programs.
→ a personal favourite
web development
Built from scratch with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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the best way to reach me is through my work email:
sonam.wangchuk@yale.eduopen to freelance work, formal roles, and happy to answer questions!