My team is named Vivitsu( विवित्सु /ವಿವಿತ್ಸು). This is a Samskritam word and, as explained by Nityananda Misra, its meaning can be derived as follows: √‘vid’ = “to know”, √‘vivid’ = “to wish or desire to know”, ‘vivitsu’ = “he/she who wishes or desires to know”
News
2024: Ph.D. Student Ankur Naskar wins the Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship and gets the opportunity to spend a year at Purdue
2023: Ph.D. Student Swetha Ganesh wins the Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship and gets the opportunity to spend a year at Purdue
2022: Project Associate Rohan Deb joins UIUC, USA for his PhD
2022: PhD Student Swetha Ganesh wins the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship
2021: Project Associate Navdeep Kumar joins Technion, Israel for his PhD
2021: PhD Student Eshwar S R wins the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship
PhD Students
Nibedita Roy
Previous Degree(s): M.Tech (Industrial Mathematics and Scientific Computing),
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
M.Sc (Mathematics), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
BSc (Mathematics), Ananda Chandra College,
North Bengal University.
Research interests: Reinforcement Learning
Hobbies: Swimming, Table Tennis, Badminton
Ankur Naskar
Previous Degree(s): M.Tech (Research), Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science.
BS-MS Dual Degree (Major: Mathematics, Minor: Physics), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata.
Research Interests: Stochastic Approximation, Dynamical Systems, Reinforcement Learning.
Hobbies: Travelling, Gym, Table Tennis, Sketching, Guitar, Reading, Movies.
Swetha Ganesh
Previous Degree(s): BS-MS (Mathematics), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Research interests: Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Optimisation
Hobbies: Drawing, Painting
Previous Degree(s): BE (Computer Science), People's Education Society Institute of Technology (PESIT), Bengaluru, India
Research interests: Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications
Hobbies: Chess
Alumni
MTech (by Research)
Previous Degree(s): BTech (Computer Science and Engineering), Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore, India
Research Interests: Random Topology, Algorithms
Hobbies: Travelling, Puzzles, Ukulele, Badminton, Table Tennis, Cooking
Alumni
MTech (by Coursework)
Jacob James
Previous Degree(s): B.Tech(Computer Science & Engineering), Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Research interests: Applied Topology
Hobbies: Playing Ingress, Pokemon Go
Pankaj Lakhar
Previous Degree(s): Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology), Nagaji Institute Of Technology, Gwalior, India
Research interests: Topological Data Analysis, Machine Learning
Hobbies: Playing/watching cricket
Alumni
2020 - 2022: Mahesh Kumar
2020 - 2022: Yashwanth Kumar
2019 - 2021: Hemanta Makwana
2019 - 2021: Amit Kumar Prajapat
Project Associates
Alumni
2021 - 2022: Rohan Deb, moved to UIUC, USA to pursue Ph.D.
2020 - 2021: Navdeep Kumar, moved to Technion, Israel to pursue Ph.D.
Research Interns
Alumni
2022: Arka Sinha (ISI, Kolkata)
2022: Shubh Kumar (IITB)
2020: Soumya Mukherjee (ISI, Delhi)
2020: Chirag Samal (IIT Kharagpur)
2020: Siddhartha Sen (RVCE, Bengaluru)
2020: Krithick Santhosh (IIT Kharagpur)