Tyler is interested in studying sensory systems and exploring how experience and internal state shape sensory processing and perception. He received his BS in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. After graduating, Tyler worked as a lab technician in Michael Goard's lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In his previous work, he studied the long-term stability of naturalistic stimulus representation in mouse visual cortex, as well as the role of dendritic disinhibition in visual processing.