Biography

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

2015:- B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree
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.

Oct 2024 - Now:- Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA),
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

Nov 2021 - Sept 2024:- Marie-Curie Global Fellow
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).

Sep 2021 - Oct 2021:- Postdoctoral Researcher
Hosted at SIERRA Project Team (Inria)
Advisor - Prof. Francis Bach.

May 2023 - Ongoing:- Research Consultant (Part time)
Morgan Stanley, Bangalore, India.

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022:- Research Consultant (Part time)
ShareChat, Bangalore, India.

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

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

May 2018 - Jul 2018:- Research Intern
Microsoft Research, New England, USA
Advisors - Nicolo Fusi and Lester Mackey.

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

Jun 2016 - Aug 2016:- Research Intern
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Advisors - Abhishek Kumar and Youssef Mroueh.

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

2024:- Invited at KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2024 , hosted by the AI Initiative at KAUST.

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

2021:- Received PhD degree with Magna Cum Laude. (2021)

2015:- 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).

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

2012:- 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.

2023:- IMS Young Mathematical Scientist Forum — Statistics and Data Science: Organized by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS) and the Department of Statistics & Data Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

2024:- Heavy Tails in Machine Learning Research Program: The ISAAC Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences satellite programme at the Alan Turing Institute, London.