Abhilasha Kumar
Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolAbhilasha Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and computational cognitive scientist at Bowdoin College who directs the Lexicon Lab and builds computational models of word meaning, search, and social cognition. Over nine years she has combined gamified behavioral experiments, statistical inference, and computational modeling to study how people represent and communicate word meanings and collaborate. Her background spans an M.Tech in Mathematics & Computing from IIT Delhi, interdisciplinary graduate training in psychology and computer science, and a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, reflecting a strong quantitative foundation. Prior industry and research roles—from NLP internships to a research associate postdoc—inform her translational approach to cognitive modeling. She frequently uses creative experimental designs and open computational tools to probe everyday language use, and prefers email as her best contact channel.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Master's degree Liberal Studies (Psychology & Computer Science), Master's degree Liberal Studies (Psychology & Computer Science) at Ashoka UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Psychological & Brain Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
python6
science5
javascript4
experimental-design4
psychology4
jspsych3
websocket2
socket-io2
linguistics1
preprocessing1
r1
thesaurus1
nlp1
turkish1
semantic1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
teaching-me/cognition
Dec 2022 - May 2025
A free introductory course for cognitive psychology at the undergraduate level
Contributions:1 release, 143 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
undergraduatecognitive-sciencepsychologycognitiveintroductory
thelexiconlab/forager
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Python codebase for computational models of memory search
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 17 PRs in 2 years
python
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