I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at the Department of Physics, Unversity of Maryland, College Park. I work with the Physics Education Research Group. From a scientific perspective, I am interested in trying to gain a better understanding of how the human mind operates and learns. From a social perspective I want to use this understanding to promote a more equitable education system and a overall scientific and rational way of thinking in society - awareness and education being the slow but steady path towards greater social justice without instability.

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• PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering
  University of Maryland, College Park
• B.Tech(Honors), Department of Electrical and Electronics Communication Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Research Interests

• Cognitive models of learning and knowledge representation
• Modeling the interaction of conceptual, epistemic and ontological knowledge
• Cognitive Linguistics : What inference about cognitive structure and processes can we make on the basis of verbal utterances?
• Modeling the complex interactions of student behaviors and reasoning in classroom/tutorial environments
• Impact and Use of Math in learning Physics