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Kohinoor Monish Darda is a cognitive neuroscientist and experimental psychologist whose research sits at a fascinating intersection of aesthetics, artificial intelligence, and human perception. Drawing on methods from cognitive neuroscience and empirical aesthetics, Darda investigates how people respond to art created by non-human agents, particularly AI and robots. Their most influential work, "The Computer, A Choreographer?" — accumulating over 35 citations since its 2022 publication — examines aesthetic responses to randomly-generated dance choreography, probing fundamental questions about creativity, authorship, and what qualifies as art in an age of machine intelligence. Building on this foundation, Darda's subsequent research on dancing robots explores how cues to human animacy shape aesthetic engagement, revealing the psychological mechanisms underlying our judgments of AI-generated movement. Beyond computational aesthetics, their work extends into dance neuroscience — reflected in editorial contributions to methods in cognitive neuroscience — and applied behavioral research, including a novel social robot intervention promoting hand hygiene in rural India. Together, these diverse contributions position Darda as an innovative researcher whose work meaningfully advances our understanding of how humans perceive, evaluate, and emotionally engage with both art and technology.