Current collaborators
Rahul Bhui,
Tom Griffiths,
Jon Cohen,
Peter Dayan,
Tali Sharot,
Matthew Hardy,
Grace Liu,
Jake Snell,
David Rand,
Zack Dulberg,
Annie Duke,
Nikolay Sukhov
Here's a tribute written in the memory of my friend who got me started in research.
I am currently a postdoc at Princeton University working at the intersection of Computation, Cognition, and Climate Change. Previously, I was a postdoc at MIT Sloan Marketing. Before then, I received my PhD in Computer Science at Princeton University, advised by Tom Griffiths, with my dissertation receiving the 2024 SfNC dissertation award.
Starting July 2015, I will be joining UCLA Department of Communication as an Assistant Professor!
As a computational cognitive scientist, my work seeks to understand human motivation and bridge the gap between knowledge and action in tackling climate change, a crisis projected to pose significant social, economic, and ecological challenges in the coming decades.
In my research, I combine computational modeling with large-scale behavioral experiments and real-world field studies to (a) better understand the human motives that drive environmentally-damaging behaviors and (b) design interventions that reduce polarization and drive action on climate change.
On this issue, I have also organized the successful Combating the Climate Crisis with Cognitive Science workshop at CogSci 2021, and collaborated with the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center and the World Resources Institute.
Rachit Dubey, Matthew Hardy, Thomas Griffiths, and Rahul Bhui
Nature Sustainability (2024)
Media: Bloomberg, MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter, Anthropocene
Gordon Kraft-Todd*, Rachit Dubey*, Erez Yoeli, David Rand, and Syon Bhanot
Under revision
Zack Dulberg, Rachit Dubey, Isabel Berwian, and Jonathan Cohen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)
Media: Psychology Today, Princeton News, Tech Xplore
Rachit Dubey, Tom Griffiths, and Peter Dayan
PLOS Computational Biology (2022)
Media: Vox, Phys.org, Neurologica, Deutschlandfunk, NatGeo
Featured as top post on reddit r/science!
Rachit Dubey, Mark Ho, Hermish Mehta, and Tom Griffiths
Under revision
Rachit Dubey, and Tom Griffiths
Psychological Review (2020)
Featured as a spotlight article in Trends in Cognitive Science
Rachit Dubey, Pulkit Agrawal, Deepak Pathak, Tom Griffiths, and Alexei Efros
International Conference on Machine Learning (2018)
Media: MIT Tech Review, Two minute papers, Slashdot
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