I'm pursuing my PhD at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, under Prof. Jonathan Kominsky. Broadly, I study causal representations, with links to causal selection judgments, actual causation, and intuitive physics.

Upcoming Conferences

• ACCS 2026 (Hyderabad, India)

Recent Past Conferences

• ESPP 2026 (Utrecht, Netherlands)
• EASP Small Group Meeting on Counterfactauls (Groningen, Netherlands)

I also take an interest in reading about cognition, philosophy, and vision science. My reading list is better summarized by a bipartite graph: https://digikar.online/references/

Prior Education

• 2021-24: MS(R) Cognitive Science - IIT Kanpur
• 2017-21: B. Tech. Computer Science - IIT Bombay

I had previously attempted an online forum for cognitive science, but it has since been archived.

I stumbled upon Common Lisp during my undergraduate days in Computer Science. I continue to be enthusiastic about it for its expressivity, interactivity, and performance. These days, I also have a primitive transpiler from algol-syntax to Common Lisp as well as a Common Lisp channel at prefix.dev.

Email: shubhamayare[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in.