The Machine Intelligence, Learning, Automation, and Privacy (MILAP) lab conducts research on algorithms and guarantees for sequential decision-making and learning under uncertainty. Our current focus includes:
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty
Language Model Optimization
See our Publications for more details.
Awards:
Young Associate, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2025.
Young Engineer Award, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2025.
Faculty research award, Adobe Research, 2025.
PhD Fellowship, Google Research, 2017-2021.
Funding:
(2026 - 2030) Advanced Research Grant (MATRICS) from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF).
(2025 - 2028) Early Career Research Grant from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF). Project: Leveraging Offline Public Data In Online Differentially Private Policy Fine-Tuning.
(2024-2026) IIT Kanpur initiation grant.
Translational work:
(2025 - 2028) Project: Forecasting models and predictive maintenance in the energy sector. Funded by ARF: AI Center of Excellence for Sustainable Cities, Ministry of Education, India. (jointly with Nitin Saxena).
Consultancy:
(2025-2026) Project: Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Machines. Funded by Honda R&D, Japan.
Openings:
There is no open position now. Check back after a couple of months.
PhD Students:
Purushottam Kumar (2025-present, Recipient of IndiaAI Fellowship)
Uditangshu Pandey (2025-present)
Virendra Nishad (2025-present)
Rohit Kumar (2025-present). Jointly with Adithya Vadapalli
Master's Thesis Students:
Milan Roy (Graduated 2026, now at Accenture)
Harshkumar Kakadiya (Graduated 2026, now at Texas Instruments)
Imran Shaik (2024-2026)
Sushant Gangurde (Graduated 2026)
Sagar Kumar (Graduated 2026)
Undergraduate Students (with close research work):
Dhruv Sarkar (CSE, IITKgp, Graduated 2026, going to MIT)
Nishant Pandey (EE, IITK, Graduated 2026, now at Google)
Hardik Jindal (EE, IITK, Graduated 2026, now at ScoreLabs AI)
Nandini Bhattad (SDS, IITK, Graduated 2026, now at NUS)
Ishi Jain (SDS, IITK, Graduated 2026, now at UnifyApps)
Kapu Nirmal Joshua (EE, IITK, Graduated 2025, now at Amazon)
Current Collaborators:
Dr. Soumyabrata Pal. Adobe Research, India
Prof. Debabrota Basu. Inria, France.
Prof. Sanjukta Roy. ISI Kolkata
Dr. Debangshu Banerjee. HP AI Research, India.