About

Dr Ramit Debnath is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Social Design, based in the Department of Architecture and an Academic Director at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of Churchill College and Cambridge Zero and has visiting roles at the Caltechand the lndian Statistical Institute. Ramit sits on the steering committee of CHIA, Centre for Data-driven Discovery (C2D3) and Centre for Climate Repair (CCR). Ramit is the Director of the Collective Intelligence & Design Group, and the climaTRACES Lab based at CRASSH. He is also the Cambridge lead for Caltech-Cambridge Climate and Social Intelligence Lab.

His interdisciplinary research integrates engineering and computational social sciences with systems thinking, socio-technical design, and behavioral interventions to address barriers to climate action. He focuses on how individual behaviours influence collective decision-making dynamics and explores the potential of emergent AI to replicate these mechanisms to solve global challenges.

A Gates Scholar, Dr. Debnath earned his MPhil and PhD at Cambridge and has held positions at Caltech, the Indian Statistical Institute, the International Energy Agency, IIT Bombay, and Stanford University.

Research

Ramit’s research interests include:

• Socio-technical design
• Computational social sciences
• Human-in-the-loop AI
• Environmental data science
• Climate action
• Urban systems