Ritesh K. Malaiya

rkm160630@utdallas.edu
Advisor: Richard Golden
Summer 2020

Ritesh Malaiya is a doctoral student in the psychology program with a concentration in cognition and neuroscience at The University of Texas at Dallas. He works in the Cognitive Informatics and Statistics lab led by Dr. Richard Golden. He received his master’s degree in applied cognition and neuroscience at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Fall of 2018, and his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering at Bharati Vidyapeeth University, India in the Spring of 2007. Ritesh’s research interests are concerned with the development and evaluation of mathematical models of how metacognitive processes influence reasoning-based decision making. More specifically, Ritesh is interested in evaluating diffusion and quantum random walk mathematical models to explain the effect of online metacognitive feeling on the progression of reasoning processes.