Anant Raj

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I will be joining the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) staring Fall 2024. I am currently a Marie-Curie Fellow, jointly hosted by Prof. Francis Bach at SIERRA Project Team (Inria) and Prof. Maxim Raginsky at Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), UIUC. Before that, I completed my PhD in Machine Learning at Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in the Empirical Inference Department under the supervision of Prof. Bernhard Schoelkopf. I received my B.Tech-M.Tech dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur where my research was advised by Prof. Rajesh M Hegde, Prof. Vinay Namboodiri, Prof. Amitabha Mukerjee and Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars (External Master's Thesis Advisor). My research interest is in understanding problems in general machine learning theory and applications. More specifically, I am interested in optimization theory, kernel methods and theoretical foundation of machine learning. I have also a vivid interest in understanding the resource efficient learning such as active learning, coresets and distributed inference. On the application side, I am interested in application of machine learning methods in healthcare domain.

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