Dr Akanksha Adya delivers a talk at Ahmedabad University

Dr Akanksha Adya, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS delivered a talk titled ‘Feeding the “Good” mother? Knowing Through Maternal Work’ at Ahmedabad University on 7 October 2026. About the Talk The child-centred development discourse and neoliberal health policies have reorganised child feeding into a moral minefield, reshaping what it means to be a “good” mother in […]
Dr Sayantan Mandal and Aniruddha Walke co-author research articles

Two research articles co-authored by Dr Sayantan Mandal, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS and Aniruddha Walke, Teaching Fellow, Psychology, SIAS, and carried out under the aegis of Cognitive Biology and Biolinguistics Laboratory, have been recently published. Natural Language in Neurodegeneration is part of Springer Nature’s volume on neurodegenerative disease and use of sustainable AI for diagnosis. […]
Dr Rakesh Sengupta co-edits book published by Springer Nature Singapore

Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), has co-edited a book titled Advancing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diagnosis and Treatment with Sustainable AI, published by Springer Nature Singapore. The eBook is scheduled for release on 11 October 2026, with the hardcover edition to follow on 28 October 2026.
Dr Kumari Anshu
SIAS Faculty at ICAS:MP Workshop

SIAS faculty Dr Geeti Das, Assistant Professor, Politics, Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Gender Studies, and Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Associate Professor, Psychology, participated in the ICAS:MP workshop, “Southern” Theory Formation: Maghrebian and Indian Approaches, held in New Delhi from 24–26 September 2026. As part of the workshop, Dr Sabah Siddiqui presented a paper […]
Dr Rakesh Sengupta publishes a paper in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS has published a research paper titled Long-Range Temporal Correlations in Enumeration: A Theoretical Link from On-Center Off-Surround Recurrent Dynamics to DFA of Reaction Times, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computing Systems and Intelligent Applications (ComSIA 2026), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (Vol 2058), Springer, Cham. Research […]
SIAS UG Student co-authors new preprint with faculty
Rakshitaasai Karthinarayanan, SIAS Cohort of 2024-28, has co-authored a new preprint titled Arousal as competition, valence as drive: a two-control account of affective modulation in the magnitude system with Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS. The research, from the Computational Cognition Lab, bridges cognitive psychology and computational modeling. The paper explores how our emotional […]
Networks of People, Places and Symptoms — A two-day bootcamp on social network

Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS
Supported by Judith Grace Lazarus.
Dr Madhavilata Maganti delivers a talk at Young Parents Conclave by Ekam Early Learning Center

Dr Madhavilata Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS delivered a talk titled, Inside the developing mind- the science of early connections, at the Young Parents Conclave organised by the Ekam Early Learning Center. The Conclave is a city-wide gathering for young, high-intent urban parents featuring world-class keynote speakers, expert sessions, and breakout tracks on parenting and […]
Krea Psychology Workshop: ‘Written in the Genes, Rewritten by Experience’

Dr Lakshman Varanasi, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, and Varun Viswanathan, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS