Hi!

I am a PhD candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. I work with Prof. Sumitava Mukherjee and Prof. Sumeet Agarwal.

My core research interest lies in judgment and decision making, understanding how people make the choices they do. My current work involves developing and rigorously comparing computational models (using MLE, Bayesian methods, etc.) to better understand phenomena like loss aversion and its variability. I’m also keenly interested in metascience, computational social science, and the intersection of human and artificial intelligence.

Email: akhil.abburu at hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Output

Publications & Conference Proceedings

  • Abburu, A., Agarwal, S., & Mukherjee, S. (2025). Heterogeneity in Loss Aversion Estimates across Modeling Approaches. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. | Talk
  • Abburu, A., & Mukherjee, S. (2024). Cognitive Science is (largely) Psychological Science. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46(0). link | Poster

Presentations

  • Abburu, A., Agarwal, S., & Mukherjee, S. (2025, June). Heterogeneity in Loss Aversion Estimates across Modeling Approaches. Annual Conference - Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, University of Trento. Italy. | Talk
  • Abburu, A. (2024, December). LLMs and Ethical Dilemmas: Would AI push you off a boat to save five people? Annual Conference of Cognitive Science 11, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). | Poster
  • Abburu, A., Agarwal, S., & Mukherjee, S. (2024a). Loss Aversion: Insights from Diverse Estimation Approaches. 2024 Indian Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi. | Talk
  • Abburu, A., Agarwal, S., & Mukherjee, S. (2024b, December). Heterogeneity in Loss Aversion Estimates across Modeling Approaches. Annual Conference of Cognitive Science 11, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). | Poster
  • Singh, P., Ramanathan, P., & Abburu, A. (2023, August 31). Trends in Applied Social Psychology Research across Regions. Symposium on Cross-cultural and Applied Psychology, 27th Regional European Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Limerick, Ireland. | Talk
  • Abburu, A., & Mukherjee, S. (2022). Top Trends and Topics in JDM: A Bibliometric analysis of the journal Judgment and Decision Making (2008-2021) (Accepted, but not presented). SJDM 2022, San Diego. | Poster
  • Abburu, A., Roy, S., Zena, L., Indumathy, J., & Kanth, B. (2021). Investigating Loss of Face and Psychological Distress using Self-Construals. Annual Convention of the National Academy of Psychology. | Talk
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