Hello there! You have found my personal website.

That is me in the picture, about to tuck into some delicious khichdi and poppadoms so clearly, not a bot.

I work at the intersection of data science, decision science and information systems, with a focus on analytical tools that help people make better decisions in complex environments characterised by uncertainty, ambiguity and change.

I made this website — with a lot of help from the wonderful people who maintain R, CRAN, Hugo and GitHub — to share occasional thoughts, research notes and hopefully useful material for researchers, data scientists, students and curious members of the public in their pursuit of the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

Much of my work is concerned with transparent, explainable and practical decision-support systems. Methodologically, I draw on problem-structuring methods, laboratory and field experiments, observational studies, computational modelling and applied machine learning across commercial, organisational and policy settings.

More broadly, I am interested in how self-service analytics, machine learning and AI-enabled decision support can improve data literacy, support clearer knowledge representations and contribute to broader societal well-being.

I started my career in academia, teaching at the University of Manchester and the London School of Economics. Since then, I have worked in applied research, helping organisations make sense of messy transactional and operational data, extract meaningful signals and use analytical methods to improve decision-making.

Anything I publish here represents my own views, not those of any organisation, colleague, collaborator, institution, affiliate or partner I have worked with, currently work with or may work with in future.

If something on this site captures your attention, feel free to share it with attribution — or better yet, get in touch. I am quite a pleasant person, once I have had my first cup of coffee.

I try to be rigorous and balanced in how I present ideas, but I also reserve the right to be wrong and to revise my views in light of new evidence.