Ishita Dasgupta
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIshita Dasgupta is a research scientist at Google DeepMind with nine years of experience bridging cognitive science and machine learning to build human-like AI. With a PhD in Physics from Harvard and a postdoctoral stint at Princeton, she develops models of human reasoning, applies cognitive approaches to interpret black-box systems, and leverages ML advances to design more interpretable, human-aligned models. Her work spans academia and industry—including research roles at DeepMind and Stanford—and includes publications on causal reasoning from RNN meta-learning and limits of compositionality in language models. Based in San Francisco, she combines rigorous quantitative training in physics with hands-on ML research, uniquely positioning her to translate cognitive theory into scalable AI experiments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Harvard UniversityGithub contributions (5)
ishita-dg/ScrambleTests
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 11 months
ishita-dg/ishita-dg.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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