Hrusikesha Pradhan
JPL Postdoctoral Fellow
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Caltech, Pasadena, California
E-mail: hrusikesha.pradhan@jpl.nasa.gov,
About Me
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Sea Level and Ice group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), affiliated with Caltech, under the mentorship of Dr. Kyra Adams. My current research focuses on developing machine learning models to predict saltwater intrusion into aquifers in global coastal systems.
I completed my Master's degree at IIT Kanpur, mentored by Dr. Adrish Banerjee, and later earned my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the same institution under Dr. Ketan Rajawat. During my doctoral studies, I had the privilege of collaborating with Dr. Alec Koppel as a Summer Journeyman Fellow at the U.S. Army Research Labs in Adelphi, Maryland.
Prior to my Ph.D. studies, I worked at the Center for Development of Telematics (CDOT), under the Ministry of Telecommunication, Government of India.
Updates
Joined NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in May 2024.
Our paper titled, "Near-Optimal Kernel approximation using Submodular Set Cover Theory", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in Feb 2024.
Defended my PhD thesis on July 2023.
Our paper titled, "A Variance Reduced Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization framework for Online Kernel Learning", got accepted in Asilomar 2022 conference.
Our paper titled, "On Submodular Set Cover Problems for Near-Optimal Online Kernel Basis Selection", got accepted in ICASSP 2022 conference.