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Preface

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have any question, no matter how quick, basic or general, about my research or the research questions I study.

If you want a copy of one of my papers, just ask. It can be an email with a link to the article and the word "want".

I care deeply about the general public's engagement with science, so if you don't understand something, I'm happy to explain.

I am also eager to provide mentorship for any people who consider themselves part of an underrepresented group applying to undergraduate or graduate school for a field relevant to cognitive science.

Archival publications

• Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2024). Human visual clustering of points arrays. Psychological Review, 1, 1. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000525

• Gandhi, A., Shah, R. S., Marupudi, V., & Varma, S. (2024, October). Natural Mitigation of Catastrophic Interference in Power-Law Learning Environments. Proceedings of the 2024 meeting of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

• Varma, S., Sanford, E. M., Marupudi, V., Shaffer, O., & Lea, R. B. (2024). Recruitment of magnitude representations to understand graded words. Cognitive Psychology, 153, 101673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101673

• Schwarzmeier, S., Obersteiner, A., Alibali, M. W., & Marupudi, V. (2024). How do people compare visualizations of fraction magnitudes? Evidence from adults’ and children’s eye movements with continuous and discretized tape diagrams. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 75, 101160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101160

• Deliema, D., Bye, J. K., & Marupudi, V. (2024). Debugging pathways: Open-ended discrepancy noticing, causal reasoning, and intervening. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 24, 2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3650115

• Shah, R. S., Marupudi, V., Koenen, R., Bhardwaj, K., & Varma, S. (2023, July). Numeric Magnitude Comparison Effects in Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 2023 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada.

• Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2023). Graded human sensitivity to geometric and topological concepts. Cognition, 232, 105331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105331

• Obersteiner, A., Alibali, M. W., & Marupudi, V. (2022). Comparing Fraction Magnitudes: Adults' Verbal Reports Reveal Strategy Flexibility and Adaptivity, but Also Bias. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 8, 398. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.7577

• Obersteiner, A., Alibali, M. W., & Marupudi, V. (2020). Complex fraction comparisons and the natural number bias: The role of benchmarks. Learning and Instruction, 67, 101307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2020.101307

Conference proceedings

• Marupudi, V., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2024, July). Estimating the growth of functions. In Samuelson, L. K., Frank, S., Toneva, M., Mackey, A., & Hazeltine, E. (Eds.), 2024 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3571). Rotterdam, Netherlands.

• Schwarzmeier, S., Obersteiner, A., Alibali, M. W., & Marupudi, V. (2023, August). Comparing Continuous and Discretized Tape Diagrams of Fractions: An Eye-Tracking Study with Adults. Proceedings of the 2023 meeting of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. Thessaloniki, Greece.

• Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2023, July). Models of human visual clustering. In Goldwater, M., Anggoro, F., Hayes, B., & Ong, D. (Eds.), 2023 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1688). Sydney, Australia.

• 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.), 2022 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 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.), 2021 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 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.), 2019 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). How benchmarks affect the natural number bias and strategy use in fraction comparison. In Hodges, T. E., Roy, G. J., & Tyminski, A. M. (Eds.), 2018 meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (p. 235). Greenville, South Carolina, USA.

• 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.), 2018 meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (p. 162). Rancagua, Chile.

Conference presentations

• Gandhi, A., Shah, R. S., Marupudi, V., & Varma, S. (2024, October). Natural Mitigation of Catastrophic Interference in Power-Law Learning Environments. Poster presented at the 2024 meeting of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

• Marupudi, V., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2024, July). Estimating the growth of functions. Poster presented at the 2024 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

• Marupudi, V., Goyal, S., Varma, S., & Rao, V. N. V. (2024, June). Might visual clustering underlie numerosity estimation?. Poster presented at the 2024 meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Washington D. C., United States of America.

• Goyal, S., Marupudi, V., & Rao, V. N. V. (2024, June). Individual Differences in Human Clustering. Poster presented at the 2024 meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Washington D. C., United States of America.

• Deliema, D., Goeke, M., Bye, J. K., Marupudi, V., Carpenter, Z., & Vasquez, A. W. (2024, June). Expansive and flexible video reflection: Straddling IA, video-cued ethnography, and pedagogical imaginings in an RPP focused on debugging. Talk presented at the 2024 meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, Buffalo, New York, United States of America.

• Zuo, M., Marupudi, V., & Varma, S. (2023, July). Unifying exemplar and prototype models of categorization. Poster presented at the 2023 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.

• Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2023, July). Models of human visual clustering. Poster presented at the 2023 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.

• Shah, R. S., Marupudi, V., Koenen, R., Bhardwaj, K., & Varma, S. (2023, July). Numeric Magnitude Comparison Effects in Large Language Models. Talk presented at the 2023 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada.

• Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2022, November). Attributes important for human visual clustering. Poster presented at the 2022 meeting of the Psychonomic 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 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 meeting of the American Psychological Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• 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. Talk presented at the 2022 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.

• Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2022, June). Evidence for the graded nature of human geometric and topological cognition. Poster presented at the 2022 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 the 2022 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 the 2022 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 the 2022 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 the 2021 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 the 2021 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 the 2021 meeting of the MNCodes Virtual K12 CSEd Summit, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

• Marupudi, V. & Varma, S. (2020, November). Intuitive understanding of geometric and topological concepts. Poster presented at the 2020 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 the 2020 meeting of the 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 the 2020 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 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 the 2020 meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Dublin, Ireland.

• 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 the 2020 meeting of the 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 the 2019 meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, 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 the 2019 meeting of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Aachen, Germany.

Awards

Graduate Travel Award
Psychonomics 2024
2024

APA Division 3 Best Poster Award
APA 2022
2022

College of Education and Human Development Fellowship
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
2019

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2019

Wolfram Award
Madhacks 2018, MLH Hackathon @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
2018

Dean's List
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (2020-): Georgia Institute of Technology
Human Centered Computing
Advisor: Sashank Varma

Doctor of Philosophy (2019-2020): University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Educational Psychology, Learning and Cognition
Advisor: Sashank Varma

Bachelors of Science (2019): University of Wisconsin-Madison
Psychology & Neuroscience
Advisors: Martha Alibali, C. Shawn Green, Craig Berridge

Research Experience

Research Intern
Honda Research Institute
PI: Shashank Mehrotra (shashank_mehrotra@honda-ri.com)
2024

Visiting Research Scholar
Intelligent Systems Laboratory @ Xerox PARC
PI: Shiwali Mohan (smohan@parc.com)
2021 - 2022

Research Intern
Intelligent Systems Laboratory @ Xerox PARC
PI: Shiwali Mohan (smohan@parc.com)
2021

Research Assistant
Cognitive Architecture Lab @ Georgia Institute of Technology
PI: Sashank Varma (varma@gatech.edu)
2021 -

Research Assistant
Cognitive Architecture Lab @ University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
PI: Sashank Varma (sashank@umn.edu)
2019 - 2020

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Cognitive Development and Communication Lab @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
PI: Martha Alibali (mwalibali@wisc.edu)
2017 - 2019

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Learning and Transfer Lab @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
PI: C. Shawn Green (csgreen2@wisc.edu)
2016 - 2019

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Neural Bases of Behavior Lab @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
PI: Craig Berridge (berridge@wisc.edu)
2018 - 2019

Teaching experience

Fall 2024: CS 7651: Human and Machine Learning
TA:

Spring 2023: CS 6795: Introduction to Cognitive Science
TA: Revamped the quizzes in addition to mentoring duties

Fall 2022: CS 8803 Human and Machine Learning
TA:

Fall 2021: CS 8803 Human and Machine Learning
TA: Helped Professor Sashank Varma develop a new computational cognitive science course. Designed homework assignments and helped with Professor Varma with course design.

Work experience

Research Intern
Human Computer Interaction @ Honda Research Institute
2024

Research Intern
Intelligent Systems Laboratory @ Xerox PARC
2021

Web Developer
Division of Information Technology @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
2018 - 2019

Digital Coordinator
Center of Religion and Global Citizenry @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017 - 2019

Technical Writer
Division of Information Technology @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017 - 2018

Technology Chair
Associated Students of Madison @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017 - 2018

Help Desk Agent
Division of Information Technology @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017

Secretary
Associated Students of Madison @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
2016 - 2017