I am a post-doctoral fellow at UT Austin working with Inderjit Dhillon and Pradeep Ravikumar. My research interests are in Machine Learning, with a focus on:

• Theoretical issues involved in the design and analysis of learning algorithms
• Adversarial online learning and its connection to classical statistical learning
• High dimensional learning problems: statistical and computational aspects
• Optimization algorithms: with a focus on large and/or high dimensional data sets
• Reinforcement learning and bandit problems: with a focus on exploration vs. exploitation dilemma
• Application of Machine Learning to Social Network Analysis and Bioinformatics

My almae matres are IIT Kanpur (B.Tech., 2002) and UC Berkeley (M.A., 2005 and Ph.D., 2007. Advisor: Peter Bartlett). I was a research assistant professor at TTIC from 2008 to 2010.

Learning Theory Course (co-taught with Sham Kakade at TTIC in Spring 2008)

Data Mining Reading Group

Publications

Code

My brother, Anuj, does HCI research as a graduate student in the CS Division at UC Berkeley.