Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta, Presenter
Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta is a Provost Professor of Psychology and the inaugural Director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in psychology and neuroscience from Smith College and a PhD in social psychology from Yale University. She is a leader in research on implicit bias. Her work emphasizes the plasticity of implicit bias — identifying the ways in which changes in local situations modify people’s implicit attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. She uses the science of implicit bias to tackle complex social problems by designing and testing the impacts of psychological interventions in the lab and in naturally existing settings. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the American Psychological Foundation, and featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, International Herald Tribune, London Times, National Public Radio, Wired, Slate, PBS News Hour, ABC News, Boston Globe, Scientific American Mind, and many other outlets.
Dasgupta’s work has been recognized by the Hidden Bias Research Prize from the Kapor Center for Social Impact in Silicon Valley, the Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award from the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, and by the UMass Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.