Hello! I'm a graduate student advised by Professor Sashank Varma at
Georgia Tech. I care about the cognitive processes involved in human
learning, computational and formal models of concept acquisition and
unsupervised learning, the impact of fraction visualizations on
magnitude perception, human solutions of NP-hard problems,
computational thinking skills, and the nature of intuitive geometry. I
care about many other things, these are just a few that I've been
involved in.
I'm passionate about open science, open source software, formal
modeling of cognition, and the use of programming and the internet to
aid psychology and learning sciences research. I maintain a
(currently) sparsely documented
library for running my experiments.
In non-academic endeavors, I'm an avid music enthusiast and
audiophile. My tastes range from
post rock to
black metal, and
from easy-going
deep house to
experimental
noise music and I have too much audio gear to manage. Feel free to
checkout my music library. I will try to
update it whenever I can. I always appreciate song and
recommendations, send me an email with some anytime!
I also appreciate typography and fonts. Feel free to checkout my
font collection.
Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2022, July). Models of human visual clustering. In Goldwater, M., Anggoro, F., Hayes, B., & Ong, D. (Eds.), 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1688). Sydney, Australia.
Shah, R. S., Marupudi, V., Koenen, R., Bhardwaj, K., & Varma, S. (2023, July). Numeric Magnitude Comparison Effects in Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada.
Schwarzmeier, S., Obersteiner, A., Alibali, M., & Marupudi, V. (2023, August). Comparing Continuous and Discretized Tape Diagrams of Fractions: An Eye-Tracking Study with Adults. Proceedings of the 20th Biennial EARLI Conference. Thessaloniki, Greece.
Marupudi, V., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Harsch, R. M., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2022, July). Use of clustering in human solutions of the traveling salesperson problem. In Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., & Ramenzoni, V. (Eds.), 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 425). Toronto, Canada.
Marupudi, V., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2022, April). Foundations for Algorithmic Thinking: Estimating the Growth of Functions. Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, California, USA.
Marupudi, V., Harsch, R. M., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2021, July). The role of clustering in the efficient solution of small Traveling Salesperson Problems. In Fitch, T., Lamm, C., Leder, H., & Tesmar-Raible, K. (Eds.), 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Society Society (p. 1865). Vienna, Austria.
Deliema, D., Bye, J. K., & Marupudi, V. (2021, April). Programming instructors and students' active (and partial) debugging: Deviation noticing, causal modeling, and intervening. Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Online.
Obersteiner, A., Marupudi, V., & Alibali, M. W. (2019, July). Adults’ strategy use in complex fraction comparison. In Graven, M., Venkat, H., Essien, A. A., & Vale, P. (Eds.), 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (p. 153). Pretoria, South Africa.
Obersteiner, A., Marupudi, V., & Alibali, M. W. (2018, November). The effect of benchmarks on strategy use in fraction comparison problems. In Gómez, D. M. (Ed.), First Regional Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (p. 162). Rancagua, Chile.
Obersteiner, A., Marupudi, V., & Alibali, M. W. (2018, November). How benchmarks affect the natural number bias and strategy use in fraction comparison. In Hodges, T. E., Roy, G. J., & Tyminski, A. M. (Eds.), 40th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (p. 235). Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
Zuo, M., Marupudi, V., & Varma, S. (2023, July). Unifying exemplar and prototype models of categorization. Poster presented at 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.
Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2022, November). Attributes important for human visual clustering. Poster presented at The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Marupudi, V., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2022, August). College students' estimations of the growth of functions: A base for computational thinking. Poster presented at The 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2022, August). Evidence for the graded nature of human geometric and topological cognition. Poster presented at The 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2022, June). Evidence for the graded nature of human geometric and topological cognition. Poster presented at 4th Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Antwerp, Belgium.
Marupudi, V., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Harsch, R. M., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2022, June). Human use of clustering to solve traveling salesperson problems. Poster presented at 4th Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Antwerp, Belgium.
Marupudi, V., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2022, June). Estimates of the growth of functions important to computer science. Poster presented at 4th Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Antwerp, Belgium.
Marupudi, V., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2022, April). Foundations for Algorithmic Thinking: Estimating the Growth of Functions. Poster presented at 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California, USA.
Bye, J. K., Park, J., Marupudi, V., & Varma, S. (2021, September). Erroneous estimation of the factorial function and improvement through calibration experiences. Talk presented at 4th Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Virtual.
Bye, J. K., Park, J., Marupudi, V., & Varma, S. (2021, July). Calibration information reduces bias during estimation of factorials: A (partial) replication and extension of Tversky and Kahneman. Poster presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Society Society, Vienna, Austria.
Deliema, D., Bye, J. K., & Marupudi, V. (2021, March). Programming instructors and students' active (and partial) debugging: Deviation noticing, causal modeling, and intervening. Talk presented at 2021 MNCodes Virtual K12 CSEd Summit, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2020, November). Intuitive understanding of geometric and topological concepts. Poster presented at 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
Deliema, D., Bye, J. K., & Marupudi, V. (2020, November). Programming instructors and students' active (and partial) debugging: Deviation noticing, causal modeling, and intervening. Talk presented at 2020 MNCodes Virtual K12 CSEd Summit, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Marupudi, V., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Harsch, R. M., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2020, July). Clustering as a precursor to efficient and near-optimal solution of small instances of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). Poster presented at 42nd Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), Toronto, Canada.
Marupudi, V., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Harsch, R. M., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2020, June). Clustering as a core mathematical ability for solving graph-theoretic problems such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). Poster presented at 3rd Conference of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS), Dublin, Ireland [Cancelled].
Marupudi, V., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Harsch, R. M., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2020, February). The reliability of human clustering. Poster presented at Graduate Student Research Day, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Marupudi, V., Alibali, M. W., & Obersteiner, A. (2019, October). Children's Evaluations of Fraction Magnitudes in Strip Diagrams: Strip Lengths and Visible Segments Matter. Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society (CDS), Louisville, Kansas, USA.
Obersteiner, A., Alibali, M. W., & Marupudi, V. (2019, August). Natural number bias when comparing fraction magnitudes: The role of strategy use and problem features. Talk presented at 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Aachen, Germany.
