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:
Virendra Nishad (2025-present)
Purushottam Kumar (2025-present, Recipient of IndiaAI Fellowship)
Uditangshu Pandey (2025-present)
Rohit Kumar (2025-present). Jointly with Adithya Vadapalli
Master's Thesis Students:
Milan Roy (Graduated 2026)
Harshkumar Kakadiya (Graduated 2026))
Imran Shaik (2024-2026)
Sushant Gangurde (Graduated 2026)
Sagar Kumar (Graduated 2026)
Undergraduate Students (with close research work):
Dhruv Sarkar (CSE, IITKgp, Graduated 2026)
Nishant Pandey (EE, IITK, Graduated 2026)
Hardik Jindal (EE, IITK, Graduated 2026)
Nandini Bhattad (SDS, IITK, Graduated 2026)
Ishi Jain (SDS, IITK, Graduated 2026)
Kapu Nirmal Joshua (EE, IITK, Graduated 2025, now at Amazon)
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.