About

Few questions have pursued me as persistently as what kinds of rules we think about when making choices, if at all we do (and this I mean with no disrespect to those who do not—if anything the opposite). As life has mysterious ways of offering a helping hand, I found myself under Prof. Srinivasan's wings at CBCS, University of Allahabad, where I attempted to systematize my questioning. From there, I came to IIT Kanpur, still plagued by the same questions about what makes people choose when sticking to a rule is difficult, but now with some tools to strike at an answer.

Under the inescapable influence of Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava (of the PLATIPUS Lab), I was turned to observing the underlying phenomenological experience of the everyday mental gymnastics involved in deciding to follow or not to follow rules. In that freedom of asking questions and attempting answers, I was only limited by my own blinders. There I explored if the fickleness of decisions can be based upon the fickleness of mental dynamics underlying them. 

I was fortunate to find a postdoc that allowed me to continue gnawing at these questions by bringing legal rules and regulations into the fold. Currently at INCET, Jagiellonian University, I work with Piotr Bystranowski to study how people understand, relate to, and navigate formal systems of rules.