Rajesh Kasturirangan

Rajesh Kasturirangan is a mathematician[1] and a cognitive scientist[1] from India whose research is on how language and concepts are grounded in the world.

He then did another PhD in Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004 under the supervision of Whitman Richards.

[3] He was a research scientist at Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, before joining NIAS Bangalore.

[2] His research interests vary from applying a combination of philosophical argument, mathematical techniques and empirical observations to classical problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind such as the semantics of natural languages, the epistemology of beliefs and the structure of intentionality and consciousness.

He was one among the twenty of the world's foremost scientists and philosophers, who were invited to speak at The Mind and Life XXVI conference, held on 17–22 January 2013.