I'm a PhD student and PMRF fellow in The Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur. I work in the PLATIPUS lab under Dr. Nisheeth Srivastava on computational cognitive science.

I use computational modeling, behavioral experiments, and data science to study why and when do people think about quitting something. Instead of focusing on a lab-grown conception of quitting, I primarily intend to define it in real-life contexts and provide a mechanistic framework inspired from the framework of bounded rationality.

Before my PhD, I was a masters student in Cognitive Science at University of Allahabad and majored in psychology in my bachelors at University of Mumbai. In my past academic lives, I have been involved with two topics of research: one, on mapping the theoretical and statistical limits of cognitive models for predicting human behavior and two, understanding the relationship of creativity with factors of academic achievement in Indian students. The former work started as my masters thesis while the latter was my first foray into empirical research work in psychology.

I also practice classical music (mostly vocals) and enjoy spending my leisure time playing video games.

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