I am a PhD student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I am fortunate to be advised by Zaid Harchaoui and Sham Kakade.
My research goals are to design and analyze practical machine learning techniques with provable guarantees, particularly in the large scale setting. I'm currently working on optimization for structured prediction.
Previously, I worked with Nina Balcan for my Master's at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, I spent 4 wonderful years as an undergrad at IIT Bombay.
Outside of academics, I'm passionate about getting out to the mountains to hike/backpack. I also make some music.
My Research
Data Driven Resource Allocation for Distributed Learning
with Travis Dick, Mu Li, Colin White, Nina Balcan, Alex Smola in AISTATS 2017.On Skewed Multi-Dimensional Distributions: the FusionRP Model, Algorithms and Discoveries
with Zhanpeng Fang, Pravallika Devineni, Danai Koutra, Jie Tang, Christos Faloutsos inMaster's Thesis: Data Driven Resource Allocation For Distributed Machine Learning
Thesis Committee: Nina Balcan, Alex Smola, Christos FaloutsosSome improvization over a composition of mine.
Jazzed up version of a Carnatic Classic, Raghuvamsa Sudha.
A mash up of Coldplay's Fix You with the Indian song Jiyen Kyun.