• I offer an 8 week  NPTEL course on 'Introduction to Machine Learning' in Tamizh. Interested folks can check details here .

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• Research paper titled 'Byzantine Spectral Ranking' co-authored by  Arnhav Datar and John Augustine has been accepted for publication at  Neurips 2022.

• I was awarded the Young Faculty Recognition  Award for the year 2022. 

• Arnhav Datar,  a B.Tech student receives the best BTP award for the year 2022. He worked on a Byzantine Ranking problem and was jointly guided by Dr. John Augustine. 

• Research paper titled 'A Theory of Tournament Representations' co-authored by  Abdul Bakey Mir and Vishnu Veerathu has been accepted for publication at ICLR 2022.

• Program Chair for the RBCDSAI-FCAI Conference on Deployable AI (March 7-10, 2022)

• Short research paper titled  'Hyper-IMRANK: Ranking-based Influence Maximization for Hypergraphs' co-authored by Athul M.A has been accepted for publication at CODS-COMAD, 2022.

• Research paper titled 'On The Structure of Parametric Tournaments with Application to Ranking from Pairwise Comparisons' co-authored by Vishnu Veerathu has been accepted for publication at NeurIPS, 2021.

• Research paper titled 'PaRWiS: Winner Determination from Active Pairwise Comparisons Under a Shoestring budget' co-authored by Dev Yashpal Sheth has been accepted for publication at ICDM, 2021.

• Athul M. A, a 2021 M.Tech pass out from the lab receives the Prof.H.N.Mahabala Endowment Prize(Best M. Tech. Project Prize). Congratualtions, Athul!

• Program Chair for the First Conference on Deployable AI (June 16-18, 2021)

• Dev Yashpal Sheth and I will give a tutorial on Pariwise Preference Learning at PAKDD 2021 on 13th May.

• I will give an invited talk at the COMSNET MINDS workshop on Jan 5th.

• Research paper titled 'Sequential Ski Rental Problem' co-authored by Anant Shah has been accepted for publication at AAMAS 2021.

• I will be presenting a tutorial on Recent Advances in Multiple Facets of Preference Learning at AAAI 2021 .

• I am co-organizing RBCDSAI's International Summit on Data Science and AI, 2020.

• Research paper titled 'Censored Semi Bandits: A Framework for Resource Allocation with Censored Feedback' co-authored by Arun Verma, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal and Raman Sankaran has been accepted for publication at NeurIPS, 2019

• I will be speaking at the 'Data Science in India' ACM event at KDD 2019, Anchorage, Alaska. 

• Research paper titled 'Learning Transferable Feature Representation Using Neural Network' co-authored by HImanshu Sharad Bhatt, Shourya Roy and Sriranjani Ramakrishnan will be presented at ACL-2019 this July.

• Research paper titled 'Lovasz Convolutional Networks' co-authored by Prateek Yadav, Madhav R Nimishakavi, Naganand Yadati, Shikhar Vashishth and Partha Talukdar will be presented at AISTATS-2019 this April. 

• I joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor on March 1st, 2019.