Assistant professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), US

Rachit Dubey received an undergraduate degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, an MS in education from the University of California, Berkeley, US, and a PhD in computer science from Princeton University, US. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dubey started his laboratory in the Department of Communication at UCLA in 2025.

“My work asks a fundamental question: When does adaptability, a core strength of human cognition, become a liability?” — Rachit Dubey

Dubey’s research examines the cognitive underpinnings of how our minds adapt to change, and how we become disengaged from crises such as climate change. He is a grand prize winner of the NOMIS & Science Award for his essay “The normalization of (almost) everything: Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal.”