About

Education

• Ph.D. (CSE) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,  Uttar Pradesh, India 2016-2022

Thesis: Learning in the Presence of an Adversary: A Provable Approach

Advisors: Dr. Purushottam Kar and Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Received Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (CSE/IITK/2023)

• M.Tech. (CSE) PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India 2014-2016

       Certificate of Merit for Academic Excellence in Postgraduate (M.Tech/IIITDMJ/2015)

• B.Tech. (CSE) Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India 2007-2011

Research Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Associate MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi Jun'2022 - Present

• Student Research Associate C3I Center, IIT Kanpur Jan'2021 - Dec’2021

• Student Research Associate UKICERI, IIT Kanpur Aug’2017 - Dec’2020

• Applied Research Scientist Intern Amazon India, Bangalore July'2019 - Oct’2019

• Research Intern IBM India Research Lab, Delhi May'2017 -July’2017

Work Experience

• Software Engineer Tech Mahindra, Pune April’2012 -Jun’2014

Publications

Conferences (*first co-author)

1. [ICLR 2024] Bhaskar Mukhoty*, Hilal AlQuabeh*, Giulia De Masi, Huan Xiong, and Bin Gu, Certified adversarial robustness for rate encoded spiking neural networks, in The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (2024) [pdf].

2. [AAAI 2024] Srinivas Anumasa*, Bhaskar Mukhoty*, Velibor Bojkovic, Giulia De Masi, Huan Xiong, and Bin Gu, "Enhancing training of spiking neural network with stochastic latency",  Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 10900-10908 [pdf].

3. [AAAI 2024] William de Vazelhes, Bhaskar Mukhoty, Xiaotong Yuan, and Bin Gu, " Iterative regularization with k-support norm: an important complement to sparse recovery",  Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 11731-11739  [pdf].

4. [Neurips 2023] Bhaskar Mukhoty*, Velibor Bojkovic*, William de Vazelhes, Xiaohan Zhao, Giulia De Masi, Huan Xiong, and Bin Gu, "Direct Training of SNN using Local Zeroth Order Method", Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, Vol. 36  [pdf].

5. [ACML 2023] Hilal AlQuabeh, Bhaskar Mukhoty, and Bin Gu,  "Variance Reduced Online Gradient Descent for Kernelized Pairwise Learning with Limited Memory", Asian Conference on Machine Learning 2023, pp. 28-43 [pdf].

6. [AAAI 2023] Bhaskar Mukhoty, Debojyoti Dey, and Purushottam Kar, "Corruption-tolerant Algorithms for Generalized Linear Models", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023, Vol. 37. No. 8, pp. 9243-9250 [pdf].

7. [CODS-COMAD 2022] Debojyoti Dey, Bhaskar Mukhoty, and Purushottam Kar, "Agglio: Global optimization for locally convex functions", in 5th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD) 2022, pp. 37–45 [pdf].

8. [AISTATS 2019] Bhaskar Mukhoty, Govind Gopakumar, Prateek Jain, and Purushottam Kar, "Globally convergent iteratively reweighted least squares for robust regression problems", The 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Vol. 89, pp. 313–322 [pdf].

9. [PowerTech 2019] Bhaskar Mukhoty, Vikas Maurya, and Sandeep K Shukla, "Sequence to sequence deep learning models for solar irradiation forecasting", IEEE PowerTech 2019, Milan [link].

10. [ACSAC 2018] Manish Kesarwani, Bhaskar Mukhoty, Vijay Arya, and Sameep Mehta, "Model extraction warning in mlaas paradigm", Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2018, pp. 371-380 [pdf].

Journals 

1. [Machine Learning 2021] Bhaskar Mukhoty, Subhajit Dutta, and Purushottam Kar, "Robust non-parametric regression via incoherent subspace projections", ECML-PKDD 2021, Mach Learn 110, 2941–2989 (2021) [pdf].

2. [TINAE 2020] Amit Chandak, Debojyoti Dey, Bhaskar Mukhoty, and Purushottam Kar, "Epidemiologically and socio-economically optimal policies via bayesian optimization", Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering 5, 117–127 [pdf].

3. [Appl. Intell. 2020] Bhaskar Mukhoty, Ruchir Gupta, K Lakshmanan, and Mayank Kumar, "A parameter-free affinity based clustering", Applied Intelligence 50, 4543–4556[pdf].

4. [Acta Phy. Pol. B  2016] Anoop Mehta, Bhaskar Mukhoty, and Ruchir Gupta, "Controlling spread of rumor using neighbor centrality", Acta Physica Polonica B 47, 2325–2340 [pdf].

Workshop

1. [CPSIoTSec 2021] Aneet K Dutta, Bhaskar Mukhoty, and Sandeep K Shukla, Catchall: A robust multivariate intrusion detection system for cyber-physical systems using low rank matrix, in Proceedings of the 2th Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy [pdf].

Reviewer

• Conferences:  

  • AISTATS 2022, 2023  

  • IJCAI-ECAI 2022, 2023

  • CVIP 2023

  • QIP 2022 

• Journals: 

  • ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems

  • The Journal of Supercomputing