A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY NOT SO FAR AWAY...

ARVIND CHANDRASHEKAR

IN A WORLD DOMINATED BY OPERATORS, A THINKER EMERGES FROM THE SHADOWS...

ARMED WITH NOTHING BUT CURIOSITY AND AN UNREASONABLE BELIEF THAT AI COULD WRITE CODE FOR HIM, HE SETS OUT ON AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION.

BY DAY, HE LEADS A RESEARCH TEAM, STUDYING WHY HUMANS DO THE STRANGE THINGS THEY DO.

BY NIGHT, HE BUILDS UN-DIOS — AN OPEN CONVERGENCE PLATFORM FOR ANDROID.

HE WRITES ESSAYS NOBODY ASKED FOR AND PURSUES A DOCTORATE ON SOCIAL COMPARISON.

HE OCCASIONALLY PUBLISHES BOOKS UNDER MYSTERIOUS PEN NAMES.

THIS IS HIS CORNER OF THE INTERNET.

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Hello, I'm Arvind

Behavioral Scientist • Builder • Thinker

"I think about why people do what they do — and whether we can design better around it."

Open source experiments. Un-Dios, cricket analytics, AI explorations.

Essays on markets, behavior, technology. The occasional confession.

The resume version. Research leadership, patents, credentials.

What doesn't fit on a resume. The uncomfortable parts.

A book written under a pen name. A different kind of exploration.

Building Un-Dios, an open Android platform — without knowing how to code

Doctoral research on social comparison and network mobility

Leading user research across lockscreens, TVs, and ambient displays

Trying to write more, network less, and figure out my own category

I'm better in writing than in person, but always happy to hear from interesting people.