Designation: | Professor |
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Phone: | +91-1905-267150 |
E-Mail: | varun[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in |
Address: | School of Computing and Electrical Engineering |
IIT Mandi, VPO Kamand | |
Mandi, India - 175075 | |
Curriculum Vitae: | Download Curriculum Vitae (updated on 14 Nov 2024) |
Dr. Dutt works as a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. He is also the Dean, Resource Generation and Alumni Relations, IIT Mandi. In the past, he served as the Chair of the Indian Knowledge System and Mental Health Applications (IKSMHA) Centre at IIT Mandi. Dr. Dutt has applied his knowledge and skills in the fields of psychology, public policy, and computer science to explore how humans make decisions on social, managerial, and environmental issues. Dr. Dutt's Ph.D. thesis focused on answering the question: why do we want to defer actions on climate change and he has investigated the question by applying literature on people’s risk-preferences, time-preferences, social-cultural dilemmas, and linear thinking. Dr. Dutt has used lab-based methods involving experiments with human participants and cognitive models to investigate his research questions.
Dr. Dutt serves as a senior member of IEEE and as the Principal Investigator at Applied Cognitive Science (ACS) Lab. He is currently serving as an Academic Editor of PloS Computational Biology journal, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Cognitive Science journal, a Review Editor of Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience journal, and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness and the Journal of Dynamic Decision Making. Also, Dr. Dutt serves on the Board of Directors of Intiot Services Pvt. Ltd., India. In the recent past, Dr. Dutt served as a special topics editor in Frontiers in Psychology (Cognitive Science) journal for special issues on “Application of Cognitive Approaches to Cyber Security,” “Human Decision-Making in Combat Situations Involving Traditional and Immersive Visual Technologies,” and “Highlights in Psychology for Clinical Settings: Military Personnel and Veteran Mental Health.” He was also a lead author on IPCC WG III's 5th Assessment Report.
For more information on research, please visit ACS Lab and IKSMHA Centre
You may also visit the following pages: Varun Dutt's IRINS page, Varun Dutt's Research Gate page, and Varun Dutt's Google Scholar page
For technology commercialization, please visit the following page: Intiot Services Pvt. Ltd.