I am a Professor of Common Sense, with teaching appointments in the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

In the past I was a postdoc in Ed Vul's lab at UCSD, and I escaped with a PhD from Paul Schrater's lab at Minnesota before that.

These days, I spend most of my time running CDIS and ARF.

Representative publications*

*For a full list, see here.

Over-precise predictions cannot identify good choice models. Computational Brain and Behavior, 2022(preprint)

One and known: Incidental probability judgments from very few samples. Proceedings of CogSci 2021 (pdf)

Modeling procrastination as rational metareasoning about task effort. Proceedings of CogSci 2021 (pdf)

Using conceptual incongruity as a basis for making recommendations. Proceedings of ACM RecSys, 2020 (pdf)

New tab page recommendations strongly concentrate web browsing to familiar sources. Proceedings of ACM WebSci, 2019 (pdf)

A simple model of recognition and recall memory. Proceedings of NIPS 2017 (pdf)

Modeling sampling durations in decisions from experience. Proceedings of Cog Sci 2016 (pdf)

Attention modulates spatial precision in multiple object tracking. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2016 (pdf)

Choosing fast and slow. Proceedings of Cog Sci 2015 (pdf)

Magnitude-sensitive preference formation. Proceedings of NIPS 2014 (pdf)

Frugal preference formation. Proceedings of Cog Sci 2014 (pdf)

Rational inference of relative preferences. Proceedings of NIPS, 2012 (pdf)