![Sonam Kindy](/assets/images-profiles/_horizontalPortrait/SonamKindy.jpg)
Dates of Employment: July 2012 - June 2016
Sonam was part of the research core for a study investigating the effects of two well-being interventions on the brain and body, funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). She developed and was responsible for maintaining the COllaborative Informatics and Neuro-Imaging Suite (COINS) study database.
Her projects included developing the processing pipeline for electrodermal activity (EDA) and building cool functional scripts for the study.
Sonam departed the Center to pursue a second bachelor’s in Computer Science and ultimately pursue a career in technology.
Publications
Levinson, D. B., Stoll, E. L., Kindy, S. D., Merry, H. L., & Davidson, R. J. (2014). A mind you can count on: validating breath counting as a behavioral measure of mindfulness. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01202. Supplemental Data. PMCID: PMC4208398
What does well-being mean to me?
"Allowing vulnerability."