I am a Research Assistant at the Applied Theory for Machine Learning Research (ATMLR) Lab, IIT Hyderabad, working under the supervision of Dr.J Saketha Nath.
I completed my BS-MS Dual Degree from IISER Berhampur with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science and carried out my Master’s thesis work at IIT Hyderabad under Dr.Srijith P.K. on Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes and Continual Reinforcement Learning. During my BS-MS, I was a recipient of the Indian Academy of Sciences(IASc-INSA-NASI) Summer Research Fellowship (2023) to work with Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar at IIT Ropar, and also worked as Summer Undergraduate Reseaerch Fellow(2022) at IIT Hyderabad

Research, I am broadly interested in Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Deep Generative Models. My work focuses on formalizing control and decision-making problems in RL as inference problems within generative modeling frameworks. I leverage tools from optimization and statistics to develop scalable algorithms for unsupervised reinforcement learning
Keywords: Unsupervised RL, Optimal Transport, Diffusion Models, Stochatic Optimal Control

Beyond Core Research, I have a particular interest in Machine Learning Systems(MLSys) with a focus on developing efficient inference methods and distributed training for large deep learning models. I love Open Source and I spend time actively contributing to open source projects of my own and others (some of them are mentioned on the software page)

Outside Research, I enjoy playing Cricket, Travelling and exploring new cuisines, Reading(Non-Fiction!)

I’m actively seeking research opportunities. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to discuss collaborations, research roles, or cool open-source project ideas.

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Education:

• M.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science(Minor), IISER Berhampur, 2025
  • Thesis: Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes and Continual Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
  • Advisor: Dr.Srijith P.K., Department of AI, IIT Hyderabad
• B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science(Minor), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur, INDIA

Research Interests:

• Reinforcement learning and Sequential Decision-Making
• Deep Generative Models
• Statistical Learning Theory
• Machine Learning Systems (ML for Systems and Systems for ML)

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