Rachit Dubey

Curriculum Vitae PDF

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 MIT Sloan Marketing working at the intersection of Computation, Psychology, and Climate Change. I received my PhD in Computer Science at Princeton University, advised by Tom Griffiths, with my dissertation receiving the 2024 SfNC dissertation award.

Previously, I graduated from Nanyang Technology University in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and in 2018 from UC Berkeley with a master's degree in Education.

Research Summary

As a computational behavioral 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.