The Machine Intelligence, Learning, Automation, and Privacy (MILAP) lab conducts research on algorithms and guarantees for sequential decision-making and learning under uncertainty, with a focus on preserving data privacy. 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.
Faculty research award, Adobe Research, 2025. USD 40000.
PhD Fellowship, Google Research, 2017-2021. USD 50000.
Funding:
(2025 - 2028) Early Career Research Grant from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF). Project: Leveraging Offline Public Data In Online Differentially Private Policy Fine-Tuning. INR ~71 lakhs.
(2024-2026) IIT Kanpur initiation grant. INR 25 lakhs.
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. Funding: Rs. ~5.4 Crore (jointly with Nitin Saxena).
Consultancy:
(2025-2026) Project: Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Machines. Funded by Honda R&D, Japan.
Openings:
PhD/MS-research position in algorithmic fairness.
MTech project positions in time-series forecasting and Predictive maintenance.
PhD Students:
Virendra Nishad (2025-present)
Purushottam Kumar (2025-present)
Uditangshu Pandey (2025-present)
Rudraksh Manoj (2025-present). Jointly with Gunjan Kumar
Rohit Kumar (2025-present). Jointly with Adithya Vadapalli
Roopesh Mangal (2025-present). Jointly with Wasim Uddin Mondal
Master's Thesis Students:
Milan Roy (2024-2026)
Harshkumar Kakadiya (2024-2026)
Imran Shaik (2024-2026)
Sushant Gangurde (2024-2026)
Sagar Kumar (2024-2026)
Undergraduate Students (with close research work):
Arqam Patel (SDS, IITK, graduated 2025, now at the University of British Columbia)
Kapu Nirmal Joshua (EE, IITK, Graduated 2025, now at Amazon)
Nishant Pandey (EE, IITK)
Dhruv Sarkar (CSE, IITKgp)
Collaborators:
Prof. Xingyu Zhou, Wayne State University, USA
Prof. Avishek Ghosh, IIT Bombay, India
Prof. Ilija Bogunovic, University College London, UK
Prof. Aditya Gopalan, IISc Bangalore, India
Dr. Soumyabrata Pal. Adobe Research, India
Dr. Debangshu Banerjee. HP AI Research, India.