I am a Ph.D. student in the department of Engineering and Public Policy in Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) at Carnegie Mellon University, working under the advisorship of Professor Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez. I am also working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the DDM Lab in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at CMU.
Previous to this, I completed a Master's degree in Software Engineering from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon (link). Also, after completing the 2007 ACT-R summer school from Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, I was awarded a "Masters of Rational Simulation" diploma. I completed my Bachelors of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India, in 2004. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University as a Master's student and now as a Ph.D. student, I worked as a software engineer in India's top IT Company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The current focus of my interests and research has been in the fields of dynamic decision-making, system dynamics modeling (and systems thinking) and modeling human decision making and cognition using the ACT-R modeling framework. I have applied himself to investigating problems concerning stocks (accumulations and depletions) and flows. Most importantly, I am interested in answering the question of how people make repeated decisions and why people face so much difficulty in understanding the feedback from decisions in simple problems concerning their day to day lives. To get a deeper understanding on my research interests please visit my research page.
My name currently continues to figure in 2006, 2007 and 2008 Marquis Who's Who of the World and most recently among the 2008 1000 great minds of the 21st century.