About Me

I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur.

Research Interests

I work in developing applications of machine learning to develop tools and mechanisms to solve critical problems in areas such as education, air quality monitoring, and recommendation systems. I also explore the foundations of machine learning in various areas such as extreme multi-label classification with hundreds of millions of labels, learning algorithms immune to adversarial attacks, scalable non-convex optimization, and statistical learning theory.

My (quite likely outdated) Resume [pdf].

Employment

I have been lucky to have had several opportunities to work alongside some of the most well-known experts as well as some of the most fun collaborators.

Employment History
  • Associate Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Kanpur, July 2021 - present.

  • Consulting Researcher, Microsoft Research India, August 2020 - September 2021.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Kanpur, September 2015 - June 2021.

  • Post-doctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., Jul 2013 - August 2015.

  • Doctoral Research Intern, Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., May 2012 - Aug 2012.

Education

I was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur working under the joint supervision of Prof. Harish C. Karnick and Prof. Manindra Agrawal. During this period I also worked closely with Dr. Prateek Jain (Microsoft Research India) and Prof. Bharath Sriperumbudur (Pennsylvania State University).

Educational Qualifications
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2008-2013 (degree awarded 2014), CPI - 9.60.

  • Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2004-2008, CPI - 9.90.

  • All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Bal Bharati Public School, 2004, Aggregate - 93.4%.

  • All India Secondary School Examination, Bal Bharati Public School, 2002, Aggregate - 94.8%.

Trivia

My Erdös number is 3
Me > Claudio Gentile > Noga Alon > Paul Erdös