Greetings! 

I am Vipul, a final year OR PhD candidate at Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, under the genius supervision of Sivaranjani Seetharaman. 

I'm currently on the job market to work on the intersection of AI/ML, control and optimization, with application towards grid, robotics and social networks. Please find my cv here.

Specifically, I work on learning and optimization for sequential and real-time decision-making & control under uncertainty, developing algorithms with provable performance (optimality and convergence) and safety guarantees over nonconvex landscapes.  

I have also worked on grid and robotics control design problems, am currently working on related safe control design under heavy-tailed uncertainty, safe RL under uncertain constraints and multi-agent learning & control algorithms.

My broad areas of interest are:

• RL for Safety-critical Applications

• Safe Control under Uncertainties

• Multi-agent Learning and Control

• Robotics, Grid and Social Networks

In my first year, I was a summer research intern at US Army Research Lab working with Wesley Suttle and Brian Sadler, on scalable multi-agent RL algorithms. Before Purdue, I was an optimization software engineer with Siemens working on nonlinear optimization algorithms for electricity markets. 

Before Siemens I was at Indian Institute of Science where I obtained Master's from department of Electrical engineering under the priviledged supervision of Pavankumar Tallapragada.