Senior Research Scientist working on machine learning for
games, robotics, to understand and assist human creativity.
Cogitai Inc., Los Angeles,
USA
May
2017 - November 2019
Worked as a machine learning research scientist focused on
developing a cloud based reinforcement learning platform.
Honda Research Institute, Mountain
View,
USA
May
- August 2016
Worked as a member of the Systems & Control group on
human-machine interaction and the design of decision-making
algorithms for self-driving cars. Mentored by Kikuo
Fujimura.
Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
June
- August 2011
Summer intern in the Computational User Experiences (CUE)
research group. Worked on applying machine learning
algorithms to human muscle activity data. Mentored by Dan
Morris and Desney
Tan.
RWTH University, Aachen, Germany
June
- August 2009
Summer intern at the Knowledge-Based Systems Group (KBSG) where I
worked on learning by demonstration on the Nao Humanoid
robot. Mentored by Prof.
Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Texas Instruments, Bangalore,
India
May - July 2008
Summer intern where I worked on developing video
compression techniques for mobile devices. Mentored by Ajit
Gupte.
Professional Service
Organizing Committee Member for
Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning workshop at
FAIM 2018 (link).
Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop at AAMAS 2017
(link).
Future of Interactive Learning Machines (FILM) Workshop at
NIPS 2016 (link).
Interactive Machine Learning Workshop at IJCAI 2016 (link).
Sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ, an
Elsevier publication).
Invited Reviewer for
Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence, AAAI (2021, 2022, 2023)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2019
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) Journal
2017 (link)
Adaptive Learning Agents 2014 Special Issue of Connection
Science (link)
Joint International Conference on Development and Learning
and on Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EPIROB 2014 (link)
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems, IROS 2014 (link)
Wiley Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Journal 2013 (link)
Program Committee Member for
Interactive Machine Learning workshop at AAAI 2022 (link)
Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS 2014 to 2016 (link)
Interactive Machine Learning Workshop at IUI 2013 (link)
Symposium on Robots Learning Interactively from Human
Teachers at AAAI 2012 (link)
Volunteer for
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2013
held in Atlanta, USA. One of six volunteer leaders.
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2016 held
in Singapore.
Academic Experience
Instructor for Machine Learning (CS 4641) offered in
Summer 2015 at Georgia Tech (course
link).
Cleared the thesis proposal defense in Spring 2015 and
achieved Ph.D. candidacy.
Trusted Tester for Machine Learning (CS 7641), the
online version taught by Prof. Charles Isbell and Prof.
Michael Littman in Spring 2014. This course was offered as
part of the Online Master of Science (OMS) in CS degree
provided by Georgia
Tech in partnership with Udacity and AT&T.
Teaching Assistant for
Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (CS 8803), an
Online MS in CS graduate degree course taught by Prof.
Charles Isbell and Prof. Michael Littman in Spring 2017.
Computing, Society and Professionalism (CS 4001) taught by
Prof. Charles E. Phillips in Summer 2013.
Machine Learning (CS 4641) taught by Prof. Charles Isbell
in Spring 2012.
Attended a 2 week summer school on Deep Learning,
Feature Learning (link)
at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA in July 2012.
Cleared the CS qualifying exam in Spring 2012
(includes a comprehensive written component and an oral
presentation).
Lab Affiliations
Research Assistant at the pfunk
Machine Learning Lab led by Prof. Charles Isbell
Adjunct Member of the Real-Life Reinforcement
Learning Lab (RL3)
led by Prof. Michael Littman
Research Trainee at the WAran Research Foundation (WARFT)
led by Prof. N. Venkateswaran