Biography

Marie-Curie Global Fellow (Nov 2021 - Ongoing)
Jointly hosted at SIERRA Project Team (Inria) and Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), UIUC
Advisors - Prof. Francis Bach (SIERRA Project Team (Inria)) and Prof. Maxim Raginsky (CSL).

Postdoc Fellow (Sep 2021 - Oct 2021)
Hosted at SIERRA Project Team (Inria)
Advisor - Prof. Francis Bach.

Visiting Research Student (Oct 2019 - Mar 2020)
Hosted at SIERRA Project Team (Inria)
Advisor - Prof. Francis Bach.

Research Intern (June 2019 - Sep 2019)
Foundation Team, Google DeepMind, London, UK
Advisors - Pooria Joulani, András György and Prof. Csaba Szepesvári.

Research Intern (May 2018 - July 2018)
Microsoft Research, New England, USA
Advisors - Nicolo Fusi and Lester Mackey.

Visiting Research Student (Jan 2017 - Feb 2017)
Hosted at MLO Lab, EPFL
Advisor - Prof. Martin Jaggi.

Research Intern (June 2016 - Aug 2016)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Advisors - Abhishek Kumar and Youssef Mroueh.

Research Intern (May 2014 - July 2014)
College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Advisor - Prof. Le Song.

PhD in Machine Learning (2021)
Empirical Inference Department at Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen and
Department of Computer Science, University of Tuebingen
Advisor - Prof. Bernhard Schoelkopf.

B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree (2015)
Department of Electrical Engieneering at IIT Kanpur
Master's Thesis Advisor - Prof. Vinay Namboodiri, Prof. Rajesh M Hegde, Prof. Amitabha Mukerjee and Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars (External Master's Thesis Advisor)
Bachelor's Research Advisor - Prof. Rajesh M Hegde.

Awarded with Marie-Curie Fellowship to pursue research in Theory of Machine Learning. (2021)

Received PhD degree with Magna Cum Laude. (2021)

Received Max-Planck Doctoral Fellowship for pursuing PhD at Max-Planck Institute. (2015)

Been offered the Research Fellow position in Microsoft Research India (courteously declined). (2015)

Won Machine Learning Programming Contest organized by Microsoft Research India (Applied Research team, Bing Research) and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. (2014)

Intel India Embedded Challenge 2012 - Won two awards at Intel India Embedded Challenge 2012 for the project eTab(The Emotional Tablet). (2012)

• Embedded Innovation of the Year Award - Received a cash prize of INR 200K for presenting and implementing an outstanding idea under the theme of Embedded Intelligent Systems or Embedded Solutions for Social Cause.

• Jury Popular Choice Award - Received a cash prize of INR 50K for technically most sound project chosen by the Jury Members under both the themes.