EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)
Duration: August 2015-Dec 2022
Thesis title: Algorithms for Online Learning in Structured Environments.
Institute: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Achievement: Visveswaraya PhD fellow
Master of Technology (Specialization in Communication Systems)
Duration: July 2011-June 2013
CPI: 9.71 (10 point scale)
Institute: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India.
Achievement: Recipient of President’s Gold Medal for the batch of M. Tech 2013.
Bachelor of Technology (Major in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering)
Duration: Aug 2007-May 2011
CGPA: 9.61 (10 point scale)
Institute: Institute of Technical Education & Research, Bhubaneswar, India.
University: Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India.
Achievement:4th position in the University.
Higher Secondary Examination (2006) : Percentage of Marks: 85.50%
Institute: Mar Gregorious Memorial School, Rourkela, India.
Board: Indian School Certificate (ISC), New Delhi, India.
High School Certificate Examination (2004) : Percentage of Marks: 87.66%
Institute: Mar Gregorious Memorial School, Rourkela, India.
Board: Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), New Delhi, India.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
I am working as Senior Research Engineer at Sony Research in LLM foundations and Neural Machine Translation.
PhD thesis on Designing and Analyzing Statistically and Computationally Efficient Algorithms for Online/Reinforcement Learning.
Institute : Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Advisor: Dr Aditya Gopalan
Visiting Researcher: INRIA Lille, Team SequeL, France - March 2017
Designing provably efficient algorithms for low-rank bandits
Host faculty: Dr Odalric-Ambrym Maillard
Research Assistant between Jan 2014-June 2015
Institute: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India.
Development of Text-To-Speech (TTS) Synthesis systems for Indian languages - Sponsored by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeiTy), Government of India.
M. Tech. Thesis between June 2012- May 2013.
Institute: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India
Title: Financial Time Series Analysis and Prediction using Chaos Theory, Hilbert-Huang Transform and Support Vector Regression.
Advisor: Dr Hemant Patil
B. Tech. Final Year Project between Aug 2010-May 2011
Institute of Technical Education & Research, Bhubaneswar, India.
Project: Low Power Wireless Sensor design using Silicon-On-Insulator CMOS in MEMS technology.