Metacognition, Reality Monitoring, Imagination, Cognitive Neuroscience, AI, Behavior, Consciousness.
Ph.D. in Psychology
University of Florida.
On The Job Market.
Currently working with Dr. Brian Odegaard (blue sky, twitter\x) at PACLAB.
Previously I worked with Prof. Narayanan Srinivasan (now at IIT Kanpur) at CBCS.
My publications can be found on Google Scholar.
I’m Saurabh Ranjan, a cognitive scientist with a Ph.D. in Psychology (Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Florida) who builds bridges between human cognition and modern LLM systems to make models more interpretable, robust, and human-aligned. My PhD research probes reality-monitoring, imagination, and metacognition in humans and large language models — combining behavioral experiments, computational cognitive models, and deep neural network analyses.