Introduction
I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to this assignment, I completed my Ph.D. degree in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at CMU, working under the esteemed advisorship of Professor Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez.
I also have a Master's degree in Software Engineering (2006) from
the
School of Computer Science at CMU and another Master's degree in Engineering and Public Policy (2009) from
the
Department of Engineering and Public Policy at CMU. Also, after completing the 2007 ACT-R
summer school from
Department of Psychology
at CMU, I was awarded a "Masters of Rational Simulation" diploma. Before getting these degrees, I completed my Bachelors of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from
Thapar University, India, in 2004.
Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon as a Master's and Ph.D. student and now as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, 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 environmental decision making, 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 human understanding of stocks (accumulations and depletions) and flows. My Ph.D. research was aimed at investigating reasons for people's wait-and-see behavior towards policies that mitigate climate change. To get a deeper understanding on my research interests please visit my research page
My name currently continues to figure in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Marquis Who's Who of the World and most recently among the 2008 1000 great minds of the 21st century.
I am also the Knowledge Editor of a popular Indian newspaper, Financial Chronicle, published from India. To read some of my recent articles please click here.
As part of my Ph.D. degree, I developed a climate-change game for research and understanding the dynamics of Earth's climate. The game can be downloaded from here.