I study how people make decisions. I am particularly interested in complex choice scenarios, where people must, for example, search for information, learn from experience, or plan for the future. Much of my work takes a cognitive perspective, with the goal of explaining the decision process in terms of psychological constructs such as attention, perception, learning, and memory.

Through a combination of behavioral experiments and computational modeling, I develop and test new theories of decision making. I mathematically formalize these theories as computational models that I compare and select according to various methods. In doing so, my work links traditional research domains in Psychology, Economics, Marketing, Management, Game Design, AI, and Public Policy.

• Decision Making
• Cognitive Modeling
• Planning & Strategic Thinking
• Information Integration
• Behavioral Economics

Ph.D., Indiana University

Bruno de Finetti Prize, European Association for Decision Making (2015)

Decisions & Judgments
Computational Cognitive Modeling
Learning & Decision Making