Former Students

Dr. Shreya Goyal

Post-doctoral fellow (2021)

Last Known Position: Research Scientist, American Express AI Lab, Bengaluru

Dr. Gokul S. Krishnan

Post-doctoral fellow (2022)

Last Known Position: Research Scientist, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras

M. Saravanan

PhD (2008)

Last Known Position: Ericsson Research, Chennai

Thesis Title: Ontology-Based Retrieval and Automatic Summarization of Legal Judgments

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Pragathi Priyadarshini B.

PhD (2015) (BT, Jointly with Prof. V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy)

Last Known Position: Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Thesis Title: A Risk Based Decision Making Model Combining the Functions of Dopamine and Serotonin in the Basal Ganglia

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Anirban Santara

PhD (2020) (IIT Kgp, Jointly with Prof. Pabitra Mitra)

Last Known Position: Research Engineer, Google Research, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Reinforcement Learning for Safe and Efficient Planning in Autonomous Driving

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Abhishek Ghose

PhD (2022) (Part time)

Last Known Position: Director, Data Science [24]7.ai, San Francisco, USA.

Thesis Title: Interpretability using Compact Models

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Anasua Mitra

PhD (2022) (IITG, Jointly with Ranbir Singh and Diganta Goswamy)

Last Known Position: Research Scientist, Eli Lilly

Thesis Title: Structure-Aware Network Representation Learning on Graphs

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Preksha Nema

PhD (2022) (Winner, IBM Best CSE Thesis Award, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: Research Scientist, Google Research, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Encode-Attend-Refine-Decode: Enriching Contextual Representations for Natural Language Generation

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Tarun Kumar

PhD (2022) (Jointly with Manikandan Narayanan) (Intel India Research Fellow)

Last Known Position: ML Specialist, HP

Thesis Title: Rich Graph Structures: Algorithms and Applications

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Joseph Hosanna Raj

PhD (2023) (Jointly with M. Manivannan, AM)

Last Known Position: Data Scientist, GAIA, Ericsson

Thesis Title: Enabling Realistic and Quantified User Interfaces in Virtual Reality

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Aakanksha Gagrani

MS (2007) (Jointly with Prof. Koshy Varghese, CE, IITM)

Last Known Position: Oracle, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Image Modeling using Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields

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B. H. Sreenivasa Sarma

MS (2007)

Last Known Position: Chelsio Communications, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Intelligent Tutoring System using Reinforcement Learning

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Shravan Matthur Narayanamurthy

MS (2007) (Winner, 2008 Biswajit Sain Memorial Award for Best MS Thesis in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: Cloud & Information Services Lab, Microsoft, Redmond

Thesis Title: Abstraction using Symmetries in Markov Decision Processes

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Sriram Raghavan

MS (2007)

Last Known Position: PhD, QUT

Thesis Title: Distributed Algorithms for Hierarchical Area Coverage Using Teams of Homogeneous Robots

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Vimal Mathew

MS (2007)

Thesis Title: Automated Spatio-Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning

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Dinakar Jayarajan

MS (2009) (External) (Jointly with Dr. Dipti Deodhare, CAIR)

Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Thesis Title: Using Semantics in Document Representation: A Lexical Chains Approach

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Jyotika Bahuguna

MS (2010) (IIIT Hyderabad)

Last Known Position: Jointly with Dr. Madhava Krishna

Thesis Title: A Markov Decision Process (MDP) framework for active localization

A. Yousuf

MS (2011)

Last Known Position: Nvidia, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Visual Object detection using Frequent Pattern Mining

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Priya Anna Mani

MS (2012)

Last Known Position: PhD, George Mason University, Virginia, USA

Thesis Title: A Hierarchical Markov Logic Based Framework for Reasoning with Incomplete Visual Evidence

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R. Vijayasarathy

MS (2012) (External, SETS)

Last Known Position: Boeing, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: A Systems Approach to Network Modelling for DDoS Attack Detection using Naive Bayes Classifier

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S. Shivashankar

MS (2012) (Joint-Winner, 2013 Biswajit Sain Memorial Award for Best MS Thesis in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia

Thesis Title: Multi-view based Approaches for Collective Learning and Retrieval Tasks

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K. V. N. Pradyot

MS (2013)

Last Known Position: Hitech Robotics Systemz Ltd., Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Beyond Rewards: Learning from Richer Supervision

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Debarun Kar

MS (2014) (Jointly with Dr. Sutanu Chakraborti)

Last Known Position: Goldman Sachs, New York

Thesis Title: Complexity Guided Feature Weighting, Confidence Augmented Prediction and Visualization for Case based Reasoning Systems

Karthick Rangadurai

MS (2014)

Last Known Position: Cisco Systems, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Sequence Modelling to Detect Network Intrusions

Abstract

A. P. Sarath Chandar

MS (2015) (Winner, 2016 Biswajit Sain Memorial Award for Best MS Thesis in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: Faculty, Montreal Polytechnic and Mila, Montreal, Canada

Thesis Title: Correlational Neural Networks for Common Representation Learning

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Pratik Gupte

MS (2015)

Last Known Position: LinkedIn, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Epsilon Equitable Partitions based Approach for Role & Positional Analysis of Social Networks

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Saket Gurukar

MS (2015) (Jointly with Dr. Sayan Ranu)

Last Known Position: PhD, Ohio State University

Thesis Title: A Scalable Approach to Mining Communication Motifs from Dynamic Networks

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Vishnu Sankar

MS (2015)

Last Known Position: Amazon, Chennai

Thesis Title: Scalable Community Detection and Centrality Algorithms for Network Analysis

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Avijit Saha

MS (2016)

Last Known Position: Flipkart, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Scalable Bayesian Factorization Models for Recommender Systems

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S. S. Manimaran

MS (2016)

Last Known Position: Epic, Wisconsin, USA

Thesis Title: Towards an Autonomous Human Inclusive Robot Learning Framework

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Chandra Mohan T. N.

MS (2017)

Last Known Position: SAP Labs, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Browsing Behaviour Modeling using Clickstreams

M. Sairamesh

MS (2017)

Thesis Title: Learning Options with Excetions

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Prasanna P.

MS (2017)

Last Known Position: PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Thesis Title: Understanding Exploration Strategies in Model Based Reinforcement Learning

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Prathamesh Deshpande

MS (2017)

Last Known Position: PhD, IIT Bombay

Thesis Title: A Study of Community Detection Algorithms in Large Networks

Bhanu Chandar V.

MS (2018) (ED) (Jointly with T. Asokan)

Last Known Position: Schlumberger, Pune

Thesis Title: Geometrical Methods for Constructing 2D and 3D Maps using Single Perspective Image for Mobile Robot Path Planning

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Karthik Azhagesan

MS (2018) (BT) (Jointly with Karthik Raman)

Last Known Position: Daimler Financial Services, Suttgart, Germany

Thesis Title: Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Essential Genes

Subhojyoti Mukherjee

MS (2018) (ID) (Jointly with Nandan Sudarsanam, DoMS)

Last Known Position: PhD, UMass Amherst

Thesis Title: Finite-time Analysis of Frequentist Strategies for Multi-armed Bandits

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Akash Jain

MS (2019) (Jointly with Rupesh Nasre)

Last Known Position: Oracle, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Distributed Community Detection with the CEIL Score

Beethika Tripathi

MS (2019) (BT) (Jointly with Karthik Raman)

Last Known Position: Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Applications of Community Detection and Link Prediction on Multi-relational Networks

Deepak Mittal

MS (2019) (Jointly with Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, CE)

Last Known Position: Verisk Analytics, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Exploring the Plasticity of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Nikita Moghe

MS (2019) (Jointly with Mitesh Khapra)

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK

Thesis Title: Incorporating External Knowledge in Domain Specific Conversation Systems

Priyesh Vijayan

MS (2019)

Last Known Position: PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Thesis Title: Designing better Graph Convolutional Networks: Scaling Graph Propagation based Neural Networks for Collective Classification

Sapana Chaudhary

MS (2019) (ID, EE) (Jointly with Radhakrishna Ganti, EE)

Last Known Position: PhD, Texas A&M University, USA

Thesis Title: On Learning Smooth Policies in Imitation Learning

Arjun Manoharan

MS (2020) (Jointly with Sriraam Natarajan, CS, UT Dallas)

Last Known Position: Verisk Analytics, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Towards Scaling-up Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Deepak Maurya

MS (2021) (ID) (Jointly with Shankar Narasimhan, ChE)

Last Known Position: PhD, Purdue University

Thesis Title: Utilizing Spectral Properties of Edges for Multiple Graph/Hypergraph Learning Problems

Kakadiya Ashutosh Dilipbhai

MS (2021) (Project) (Jointly with Sriraam Natarajan, UT Dallas)

Last Known Position: Amazon, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Relational Contextual Bandits in Real-World User Interaction

Shayantan Banerjee

MS (2021) (BT) (Jointly with Karthik Raman)

Last Known Position: Project Officer, RBCDSAI, IIT Madras

Thesis Title: Sequence Neighborhoods Enable Reliable Prediction of Pathogenic Mutations in Cancer Genomes

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Pavan Ravishankar

MS (2022) (Jointly with Sudarsan Padmanabhan, HSS)

Last Known Position: PhD, New York University

Thesis Title: Systems and Societal Considerations to Mitigate Discrimination and Foster Inclusion using AI

Pranshu Malviya

MS (2022) (Jointly with Sarath Chandar, Mila/Montreal Polytechnique)

Last Known Position: PhD, Mila/Montreal Polytechnique

Thesis Title: TAG: Task-based Accumulated Gradients for Lifelong learning

Rajan Kumar Soni

MS (2022)

Last Known Position: Oracle, India

Thesis Title: Exploring graph neural nets for representation learning: A case study in HMMs

V. Sudhir

M. Tech (2005)

Thesis Title: A Survey Of Various Probablistic Markov Models For Document Segmentation

Ch. Rajesh

M. Tech (2006)

Thesis Title: Information Extraction From Seminar Emails Using Hidden Markov Model

V. Aravind

M. Tech (2006)

I. V. Siva Prakash

M. Tech (2007)

Thesis Title: Extrinsic Evaluation of Text Summarizers

V. Karthik

M. Tech (2007)

Last Known Position: Microsoft, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: A Communication And Positioning Platform for multi-agent systems

V. P. Murali Krishnan

M. Tech (2007)

Last Known Position: Microsoft, Redmond

Thesis Title: Communication In Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Gagan Kumar Arora

M. Tech (2008) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: Financial Programmer, University of New Orleans

Thesis Title: Automated Feature Extraction From Retinal Images To Assist In Early Detection Of Diabetic Retinopathy

P. Swaminathan

M. Tech (2008) (Nominee, H. N. Mahabala Award for Best M.Tech. Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: inMobi, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Co-SOFT-Clustering-An Informatic Theoretic Approach To Obtain Overlapping Clusters From Co-occurrence Data

Abstract

Rachit Arora

M. Tech (2008) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: Twitter, Bay Area

Thesis Title: Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Singular Value Decomposition based Multi-Document Summarization

Abstract

Simarjit Singh

M. Tech (2008) (Nominee, H. N. Mahabala Award for Best M.Tech. Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: Suzlon Power, Pune

Thesis Title: Policy Learning in Partially Observable Environment

Abstract

Ankit Malpani

M. Tech (2009) (Dual Degree) (Jointly with Prof. Hema A. Murthy)

Last Known Position: MBA, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Personalized Intelligent Tutoring System Abstract

Abstract

Hemang Mandalia

M. Tech (2009)

Last Known Position: Credit Suisse, Pune

Thesis Title: Behavioral Analysis Of Telecomm Consumer

Kiran Kate

M. Tech (2009) (Nominee, H. N. Mahabala Award for Best M.Tech. Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs, USA

Thesis Title: Positional Analysis of Social Networks

Abstract

Manish Patil

M. Tech (2009)

Last Known Position: i2 Technologies, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Interactive Interface To Search Engine

Vijayalakshmi K.

M. Tech (2009)

Last Known Position: @Walmart Labs, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Active Learning For State Mapping

Vivek Gupta

M. Tech (2009)

Last Known Position: VizExperts, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Developmental Learning As Reinforcement Learning

Aashish Dattani

M. Tech (2010) (Dual Degree) (Joint-Winner, H. N. Mahabala Award for Best M.Tech. Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: Target, USA

Thesis Title: Reducing Markov Decision Processes using Approximate Symmetries Synopsis

Angshu Rai

M. Tech (2010) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: ZS Associates, Pune

Thesis Title: Intention Extraction From Microblogs

Bala Murali Krishna

M. Tech (2010)

Last Known Position: Deustche Bank, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Network Sampling using Ego Centric Approach

Girish Rao

M. Tech (2010)

Last Known Position: MSIDC, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Reducing Cache Misses by Data Pre-fetching in a Multi-core Architecture using Hidden Markov Models

Ka. Shrinivaasan

M. Tech (2010) (M.Sc., CMI) (Jointly with Prof. Madhavan Mukund)

Last Known Position: PhD, CMI

Thesis Title: Few algorithms for ascertaining merit of a document and their applications

Sanjay Karanth

M. Tech (2010) (Dual Degree, EE)

Last Known Position: Morgan Stanley, Mumbai

Thesis Title: Experiments in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Anunay Biswas

M. Tech (2011) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Shapley Value based Approach for Selecting Top-k Nodes for Viral Marketing

P. Prathyush

M. Tech (2011) (Dual Degree)

Thesis Title: Cognitive AI and Reinforcement Learning

Rajesh Barua

M. Tech (2011)

Last Known Position: Intel, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Autonomous robot localization and navigation using an ensemble of sensors

Shashank Namdev

M. Tech (2011)

Thesis Title: Building a Library for Text Processing with Hadoop

Sheshank Dudyala

M. Tech (2011) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: MBA, IIM Kolkata

Thesis Title: Parallel Implementations of Origami: A Representative Frequent Subgraph Mining Algorithm

Soni Hardik

M. Tech (2011)

Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Universtiy, USA

Thesis Title: Classification of Execution Intervals of Program/Input pair using Cache Miss and Hidden Markov Model

Adhiraj Alai

M. Tech (2012) (Dual Degree) (Jointly with Prof. Krishna Sivalingam)

Last Known Position: McKinsey, Mumbai

Thesis Title: Coevolution of Structure and Strategy in Small World Graphs

Ananda Narayanan B

M. Tech (2012) (Dual Degree, EE) (Jointly with Prof. Arvind)

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Thesis Title: Control of Sample Complexity and Regret in Bandits using Fractional Moments Thesis

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Arun Chaganty

M. Tech (2012) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: PhD, Stanford University

Thesis Title: Inter-Task Learning with Spatio-Temporal Abstractions

Bharath, S.

M. Tech (2012) (Jointly with Dr. Ashish V. Tendulkar, TIFR Mumbai)

Last Known Position: Adobe Systems, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Approximate Entity Matching

Divya Padmanabhan

M. Tech (2012) (Jointly with Dr. Ashish V. Tendulkar, TIFR Mumbai)

Last Known Position: PostDoc, SUTD

Thesis Title: Language Models for Protein Sequence Retrieval

Mahesh Yadangi

M. Tech (2012) (Dual Degree)

O. Surya Kiran

M. Tech (2012) (Dual Degree)

Prateek Gaur

M. Tech (2012) (Dual Degree)

Pravar Mahajan

M. Tech (2012) (Dual Degree)

Vignesh G.

M. Tech (2012) (M.Sc., CMI,) (Jointly with Prof. Madhavan Mukund)

Last Known Position: Perspica Networks, Chennai

Thesis Title: Recommender Systems using Constrained Clustering and Contextual Bandits

Vivek Shribatri

M. Tech (2012)

Peeyush Kumar

M. Tech (2013) (Dual Degree, AE/AM) (Jointly with Prof. Manivannan, AM)

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Washington

Thesis Title: Hierarchical Decision Making using Spatio-Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning

Preetham V.

M. Tech (2013)

Last Known Position: MSIDC, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Reinforcement Learning in RoboCup Soccer

Priyatosh Mishra

M. Tech (2013)

Last Known Position: PhD, IIT Madras

Thesis Title: An Approach to Collaborative Filtering using Constrained Clustering and Multi-Armed Bandits

Sharmistha Jat

M. Tech (2013)

Last Known Position: PhD, IISc, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Semi-Supervised Learning for Sentiment Analysis

Swarnim Soni

M. Tech (2013)

Last Known Position: Microsoft, Redmond

Thesis Title: Speeding up Community Detection Algorithms in Social Network Analysis

Aayush Vyas

M. Tech (2014)

Thesis Title: Novel Applications of Network Centrality Measures

Anuja Agrawal

M. Tech (2014) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: Google, Mountain View

Thesis Title: Active Multi-View Learning with Performance Guarantees

Pratik Gajane

M. Tech (2014)

Last Known Position: PhD, INRIA, France

Thesis Title: Studies in Bandit Problems

Sai Nageswar Satchidanand

M. Tech (2014) (Winner, H. N. Mahabala Award for Best M.Tech. Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Thesis Title: Multi-view, Multi-relation Transductive Inferences

Santhosh Kumar M.

M. Tech (2014) (Dual Degree)

Last Known Position: Google, Mountain View

Thesis Title: Approximate Inference in Graphical Models using Convex Relaxations

Bharadwaj J.

M. Tech (2015)

Last Known Position: VISA, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Alignment of Web Taxonomies using Hierarchical Classification

Dhanvin Mehta

M. Tech (2015) (Dual) (Jointly with Prof. Ron Parr, Duke)

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Thesis Title: Solving for Lipschitz Continuous Value Functions through induced MDPs

Harini A.

M. Tech (2015) (Joint Winner, H. N. Mahabala Award for Best M.Tech. Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: Google, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: A Hypergraph approach to Multi-view Multi-relational Learning

Parthasarathy G.

M. Tech (2015) (Dual, BT) (Jointly with Karthik Raman)

Last Known Position: Epic Systems, Wisconsin

Thesis Title: Predicting Essential Genes in Microbes

Sai Chaitanya M.

M. Tech (2015) (Dual)

Thesis Title: Path Planning in Non-stationary Environments using RRTs

Spandana Raj B.

M. Tech (2015) (Dual)

Last Known Position: Google, Mountain View

Thesis Title: Learning with Multi-view Hypergraphs: A Spectral Perspective

Charu Chauhan

M. Tech (2016)

Last Known Position: Microsoft, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: User Behavior Modelling For Implicit Authentication

Mohsin Vindhani

M. Tech (2016) (Dual, ED) (Jointly with Sandipan Bandyopadhyay)

Thesis Title: Motion planning for parallel manipulators using Rapidly Exploring Random Trees

Pallavi Gudipati

M. Tech (2016) (Dual, BT) (Jointly with Karthik Raman)

Last Known Position: Apple Inc., Paris

Thesis Title: Neighborhood Analysis of Genomic Data

Prashant Tatan

M. Tech (2016)

Thesis Title: Network Analytics using Distributed Frameworks

R. Janarthanan

M. Tech (2016) (Dual, EE) (Jointly with Kaushik Mitra)

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Thesis Title: Facets in Transfer Learning - Across Modalities, and Tasks

Ramnandan, K.

M. Tech (2016) (Dual)

Thesis Title: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning using Spatio-Temporal Abstractions and Deep Neural Networks

Varun Gangal

M. Tech (2016) (Dual) (Jointly with Venkatesh Ramaiyan, EE)

Last Known Position: PhD, CMU

Thesis Title: Centrality and Influence in Signed Social Networks & Hypergraphs

Aravind Srinivas, L.

M. Tech (2017) (Dual, EE) (Jointly with Kaushik Mitra)

Last Known Position: PhD, UC Berkeley

Thesis Title: Structured Policy Learning: Hierarchies, Temporal Abstractions and Meta-Controllers for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Bhuvaneswari, S.

M. Tech (2017) (EE) (Jointly with Ramkrishna Pasumarti)

Thesis Title: Reinforcement Learning for Control and Stabilization of Mechanical Systems

Ghulam Ahmed Ansari

M. Tech (2017) (Dual, EE) (Jointly with Kaushik Mitra)

Last Known Position: IBM-IRL, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Learning Language and Expanding Vocabulary Through Reinforcement Learning

Raghuram Satyamurthy

M. Tech (2017)

Thesis Title: Embedding on Multi-Relational Attributed Network using Deep Learning Techniques

Sagar, J. P.

M. Tech (2017) (Dual)

Thesis Title: Investigations in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Sahil Sharma

M. Tech (2017) (Dual) (Winner, Lakshmi Ravi Award for Best Dual Degree Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: Google, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Temporal Abstractions and Multi-Task Learning for High Dimensional Visual Control

Sai Kiran

M. Tech (2017) (Dual, EE) (Jointly with Venkatesh Ramaiyan)

Last Known Position: CSE, IIT Madras

Thesis Title: Studies in Structural Similarity Measures over Information Networks

Sai Rahul Vaduga

M. Tech (2017) (Dual, EE) (Jointly with R. Aravind)

Thesis Title: Named Entity Recognition in Noisy Text

Vishruit Kulshreshta

M. Tech (2017) (Dual, ME) (Jointly with Prabhu Rajagopal)

Thesis Title: Extraction of Defect features from Infrared Thermographic welding videos using Machine Learning

Abishek Naik

M. Tech (2018) (Dual)

Last Known Position: PhD, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Thesis Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning: Reliability and Multi-Agent Environments

Arjun, K. G.

M. Tech (2018) (Dual, ED) (Jointly with T. Asokan)

Last Known Position: Intel, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of An Improved Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Robotics

Denzil Francis Crasta

M. Tech (2018)

Thesis Title: Distributed Network Representation Learning on Apache Spark

Joe Eappen

M. Tech (2018) (Dual, EE) (Jointly with Kaushik Mitra)

Last Known Position: PhD, Purdue University, USA

Thesis Title: Hierarchical Approaches to Reinforcement Learning Using Attention Networks

Manika Agarwal

M. Tech (2018) (Dual)

Last Known Position: Goldman-Sachs, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Option Learning in Multi-tasking Environment

Mohan Bhambani

M. Tech (2018) (Dual)

Last Known Position: IBM Research, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Action constrained Reinforcement Learning for reasoning using Knowledge Graphs

Sudhan, M.

M. Tech (2018) (BT) (Jointly with Dr. Mathew Joseph, CMC Vellore)

Thesis Title: Artificial Intelligence Enabled Tool for Traumatic Brain Injury Triaging

Ujjawal Soni

M. Tech (2018) (Dual)

Last Known Position: Samsung R&D, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Zero-shot Learning for Multi-relational Network Embedding

Bhuvan Agrawal

M. Tech (2019) (Dual)

Last Known Position: MS, CMU, USA

Thesis Title: Reinforcement Learning based Decision Trees

Kavya Mrudula

M. Tech (2019) (Dual)

Thesis Title: Simultaneous Planning and Learning in large MDPs

Manan Tomar

M. Tech (2019) (Dual, ED) (Jointly with T. Asokan)

Last Known Position: Facebook AI Research, Mountain View, CA, USA

Thesis Title: Reinforcement Learning based Decision Trees

Rahul Ramesh

M. Tech (2019) (Dual)

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Thesis Title: Option Discovery and Skill Acquisition in Reinforcement Learning using Successor Representations

Rohan Saphal

M. Tech (2019) (Dual, ED) (Jointly with Shankar Ram C. S.)

Last Known Position: MS, Oxford University, UK

Thesis Title: Deep Relational and Robust Reinforcement Learning

Sachin Agrawal

M. Tech (2019) (Dual, EE) (Jointly with Karthik Raman, BT)

Last Known Position: Daimler, Stuttgart, Germany

Thesis Title: Deep Learning for Network Chemistry and Network Biology

Abhijeet Ghawade

M. Tech (2020) (Dual, EE)

Abhijeet Vyas

M. Tech (2020) (Dual, Data Science)

Abhishek Rao

M. Tech (2020) (Dual, Data Science)

Anand A. R.

M. Tech (2020) (Jointly with Karthik Raman, BT)

Anand Iyer

M. Tech (2020) (Dual, Data Science)

Harshavardhan, P. K.

M. Tech (2020) (Winner, Lakshmi Ravi Award for Best Dual Degree Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Jahnvi Patel

M. Tech (2020) (Dual)

Shubham Choudhary

M. Tech (2020) (Dual, Robotics)

Soham Raste

M. Tech (2020) (Dual, Robotics)

Vinit Mehta

M. Tech (2020) (Jointly with Vivek Kumar, Jackson Laboratories, USA)

Deovrat Mehendale

M. Tech (2021) (Jointly with Sarath Chandar, Mila)

Dhruv Laad

M. Tech (2021) (Jointly with Vivek Kumar, Jackson Laboratories, USA)

Gopikrishna Yalavarthi

M. Tech (2021)

Keval Dholakia

M. Tech (2021)

Navodita Sharma

M. Tech (2021) (Dual)

Sai Harshini

M. Tech (2021) (Dual)

Santosh Kumar

M. Tech (2021)

Siddharth Bhatia

M. Tech (2021) (Jointly with Himabindu Lakkaraju, HBS)

Akash Reddy, A.

M.Tech (2022) (Dual, EE)

Gayathri, C.

M.Tech (2022) (Dual, Data Science)

Nishant Prabhu

M.Tech (2022) (Dual, Data Science)

Prashant, G.

M.Tech (2022) (Dual, Data Science) (Jointly with Karthik Raman, BT)

Saarthak Sandip Marathe

M.Tech (2022) (Dual, Data Science) (Jointly with Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt, BT)

Vihaan Akshay Rajendiran

M.Tech (2022) (Dual Degree, Robotics) (Jointly with Vivek Kumar, Jackson Laboratories, USA)

E. Siva Sowmya

B. Tech (2005)

Last Known Position: Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA

Thesis Title: Placement And Routing Of 3D-FPGA using Reinforcement Learning and Support Vector Machines

Abstract

V. Muralidharan

B. Tech (2005)

Himanshu Shirmali

B. Tech (2006)

Last Known Position: Citigroup, Mumbai

Thesis Title: Robot Navigation In Partially Observable Domains

Jayaprakash Kommu

B. Tech (2006)

Last Known Position: CRISIL, Chennai

Thesis Title: Developing The Functionality And Introducing Control Mechanism To Beam Robots(Scout Walker)

P. Sriram

B. Tech (2006)

Thesis Title: Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Pranjal Awasthi

B. Tech (2006)

Last Known Position: Faculty, Rutgers University, NJ, USA

Thesis Title: Image Segmentation using Multiscale Conditional Random Fields

Abstract

Aniket Ray

B. Tech (2007)

Last Known Position: Google, Mountain View, CA, USA

Thesis Title: Models For Prediction Of Retinopathy Of Prematurity

B. Dharrini

B. Tech (2007)

Last Known Position: Credit Suisse, UK

Thesis Title: Personalized Search Using Contextual Dimensions

Matthieu Aubrey

B. Tech (2007) (Exchange Student)

Last Known Position: OpenX, France

Siddesh Karra

B. Tech (2007)

Last Known Position: Lehman Brothers, Hong Kong

Thesis Title: Information Extraction From Web Discussion Forums

Deepthi Cheboli

B. Tech (2008)

Last Known Position: Goldman-Sachs, New York

Thesis Title: Models For Detection Of Keratoconus

Thesis PDF Abstract

Dharmendra Katariya

B. Tech (2008)

Last Known Position: Morgan Stanley, Mumbai

Thesis Title: Intent Searching By Hierarchical Classification Of Web Content

Pankaj Chand

B. Tech (2008)

Last Known Position: English Dost, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Representation Of Tetris As A Reinforcement Learning Problem

Vipul Hattiwale

B. Tech (2008)

Last Known Position: Microsoft, Bellevue, WA, USA

Avinash P.

B. Tech (2009)

Last Known Position: IIM, Ahmedabad

Thesis Title: Behavior Analysis Of Telecomm Data Through Social Networks

Jay Nitin Karnik

B. Tech (2009) (EE)

Thesis Title: Creation of a Virtual Computer Laboratory using Virtualization

K. Ravi Teja

B. Tech (2009)

S. Shonima

B. Tech (2009)

Last Known Position: Zynga, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Models for Prediction of Angle Closure Glaucoma

Abstract

Aditya Shankar

B. Tech (2010)

Last Known Position: Goldman-Sachs, London

Thesis Title: Sentiment analysis of Financial Documents

Komal Prajapathi

B. Tech (2010)

Last Known Position: MSIDC, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Comparative analysis of various Reinforcement Learning techniques

K. Rahul Reddy

B. Tech (2011)

Last Known Position: Goldman-Sachs, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: A Comparitive Study of Multi-Label learning algorithms on the task of Text Categorisation

Phani Kishan

B. Tech (2011)

Last Known Position: IIM, Calcutta

Thesis Title: A Study of Classification Models for Angle Closure Glaucoma using Support Vector Machines

Shravan Shrinivas, B.

B. Tech (2011)

Thesis Title: Distributed Methods for Computing Centrality using Shapley Values

Siva Prakash, K.

B. Tech (2011)

Thesis Title: Distributed Methods To Solve Data Mining Algorithms Using MapReduce

Akshaya Sivakumar

B. Tech (2012)

Last Known Position: Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Performance of Co-Training for Classification of Network Data

Sanjay Guruprasad

B. Tech (2012) (EP) (Jointly with Dr. Aditi Simha)

Thesis Title: Word Sense Disambiguation using supervised and unsupervised methods based on Lexical Chains

Shiva R.

B. Tech (2012)

Last Known Position: PhD, New York University, New York

Vijay Karthik M.

B. Tech (2013)

Last Known Position: Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Small-World Options in Reinforcement Learning - In a Simplified Automatic Guided Vehicle Domain

Vikram Rao S.

B. Tech (2013)

Last Known Position: Twitter, San Francisco, USA

Thesis Title: Small-World Options in Reinforcement Learning - In the Automatic Guided Vehicle Domain

Praveen Kumar M.

B. Tech (2014) (EE) (Jointly with Krishna Jagannathan)

Last Known Position: Hyperverge, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Object Categorization using Heirarchical Markov Logic Network Framework

Rongali Subendhu

B. Tech (2014)

Last Known Position: MS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Thesis Title: An Auto-encoder approach for Multiview Learning

Sabarinath N. P.

B. Tech (2014)

Last Known Position: Facebook, London

Thesis Title: Evolution of Strategy in Dynamic Small World Graphs

Aishwarya Padmakumar

B. Tech (2015)

Last Known Position: PhD, UT Austin

Thesis Title: Aggregate Diversity in Recommendation Systems

Navyata Sanghvi

B. Tech (2015) (ME) (Jointly with M. Manivannan)

Last Known Position: MS, CMU

Sanjan, T. P.

B. Tech (2015) (BT) (Jointly with Karthik Raman)

Thesis Title: Decoding the framework of Metabolic Pathways

Vaishnavh Nagarajan

B. Tech (2015)

Last Known Position: PhD, CMU

Thesis Title: A Know-What-It-Knows Algorithm for Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Abdeali Kothari

B. Tech (2016) (EP) (Jointly with Ramkrishna Pasumarti)

Thesis Title: Autonomous control of Quad-rotor and payloads using Reinforcement Learning

Bala Saravanan

B. Tech (2016) (ME, jointly with Arunachalam, ME) (Winner, Sivasailam Merit Prize for Best B.Tech. Project in Mechanical Engineering; Winner, S. R. I. Endowment Prize for Best Interdisciplinary B.Tech. Project , IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: MS, University of California Berkeley

Thesis Title: Using Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous control of Quadrotor and payloads

Harish Kumar

B. Tech (2016) (EP)

Last Known Position: Amazon, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Algorithmic Music Composition with LSTM Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

Kunal Grover

B. Tech (2016) (ME) (Jointly with Somasundar, ME)

Thesis Title: Using Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous control of Quadrotor and payloads

Sanjay Ganapathy

B. Tech (2016) (EE/Purdue) (Jointly with Anand Raghunathan)

Last Known Position: Google, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Input Adaptive Optimisations for Convolutional Neural Networks

J. S. Suhas

B. Tech (2017)

Last Known Position: Microsoft Research, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Continuous Control for Simulated Creatures using Hierarchy of Policies

Manu S. H.

B. Tech (2017) (EE) (Jointly with Ramkrishna Pasumarti)

Thesis Title: Shared Learning in Ensemble Deep Q-Networks And Optimal Bidding using Reinforcement Learning for Electricity Markets

Rakesh Menon

B. Tech (2017) (EE) (Jointly with Kaushik Mitra)

Last Known Position: MS, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Thesis Title: Enhancing Reinforcement through Ensemble Learning

Sai Praveen

B. Tech (2017) (Joint Winner, C. Siva Ram Murthy Award for Best B.Tech. Project in Computer Science, IIT Madras)

Last Known Position: MS CMU

Thesis Title: Approaches to Spatial Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning

Ashutosh Jha

B. Tech (2018) (ME) (Jointly with Balaji Srinivasan)

Last Known Position: Goldman-Sachs, Bengaluru

Thesis Title: Melanoma Tumor Parameter Estimation using Deep Learning

Girish Raguvir

B. Tech (2018)

Last Known Position: Microsoft, Vancouver, Canada

Thesis Title: Confidence-based Returns: A Novel Approach to Mix n-step Returns for Reinforcement Learning

K. Arjun

B. Tech (2018)

Last Known Position: Indeed, Tokyo, Japan

Thesis Title: Model-based Planning for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Domains

S. Aravind

B. Tech (2018) (EE) (Jointly with Arvind)

Last Known Position: Uber, Hyderabad

Thesis Title: Identifying Latent Hierarchies using Imitation Learning

Aakash Srinivasan

B. Tech (2019)

Last Known Position: MS, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Thesis Title: Link Prediction in Networks

Ameet Deshpande

B. Tech (2019)

Last Known Position: PhD, Princeton University, USA

Thesis Title: Leveraging Sentiment Analysis for Sparse Reward Reinforcement Learning in Text-Based Games

Siddharth Nayak

B. Tech (2020) (EE)

Sujith Verma

B. Tech (2020)

Utkarsh Patel

B. Tech (2020)

Vishnu Veerathu

B. Tech (2020)

Yogesh Tripati

B. Tech (2020)

Amrit Seshadhri

Post Baccalaureate Fellows

Last Known Position: MS, Imperial College, London

Karthik V.

Post Baccalaureate Fellow

Last Known Position: MS, UIUC

Sivapriya Vellaichamy

Post Baccalaureate Fellow

Last Known Position: MS, Georgia Tech

Aaditya Kumar Singh

Post Baccalaureate Fellow (2022)

Aravind Venugopal

Post Baccalaureate Fellow (2022)

Addwiteey Chrungoo

Project Associate

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Ajay Gopalakrishnan

Project Associate

Last Known Position: Amazon, USA.

Aravind Rajeswaran

Project Associate

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Washington, Seattle

Athindran R.

Project Associate

Last Known Position: PhD, Princeton University, USA

Depen Morwani

Project Associate

Last Known Position: MS, IIT Madras

Mansimar Aneja

Project Associate

Last Known Position: Sintron Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

Mohammed Hisham C. G.

Project Associate

Prahasaran Raja

Project Associate

Last Known Position: MS, SUNY Buffalo

S. Bhuvaneshwari

Project Associate

Last Known Position: M. Tech, EE, IIT Madras

Sai Kiran N.

Project Associate

Last Known Position: PhD, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Sankaran V.

Project Associate

Last Known Position: MS, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Saurabh Desai

Project Associate

Last Known Position: MS, Oregon State University, USA

Shamshu Dharwez

Project Associate

Last Known Position: Sulekha, Chennai

Sri Ramana

Project Associate

Last Known Position: MS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute