Adi Upadhyayula, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Davis (2021-2023)
Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, Johns Hopkins University (2021)
M.A. Cognitive Psychology, Johns Hopkins University (2018)
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (2016)
M.S. Physics, BITS-Pilani, India (2013)
B.E. Electronics & Communications Engineering, BITS-Pilani, India (2013)

If you are reading this after Nichole’s bio, this is the said Adi! If not, well, he’s still Adi anyway. Adi is interested in understanding how events are represented in the mind and the brain. During graduate school at Johns Hopkins where he trained as a vision scientist, Adi worked with Dr. Jon Flombaum on how we visually perceive and process time. After his PhD, he spent 2 years working with Dr. John Henderson at University of California, Davis, studying how people process spatiotemporal continuities when viewing naturalistic movies. During this time, he became interested in how we think about event representations. He now works with both Jeff and Zach to study this question. Adi loves to chat about event representations and all things cognition. If you happen to spot him at a conference, feel free to go say hi! Outside of work, Adi spends his time biking, walking, cooking, and thinking about how to buy his next guitar. He recently went to the Pacific Northwest for a short trip and is fully convinced that he now has a new personality and outlook towards life. Whatever makes him happy!