Brooke Ryan is a Ph.D. student in Psychology at Princeton and a member of the BabyLab and the First 1,000 Days Project. Her research explores how infants' everyday social environments shape language learning and cognitive development. She uses naturalistic data and computational methods to examine patterns of proximity, interaction, and family dynamics in the home, with a particular interest in how these patterns evolve as babies grow. Before coming to Princeton, Brooke earned a Master's degree in Computer Science and spent several years working as a software engineer. She's excited about bridging developmental science with data-driven tools.