I am was a Ph.D. student with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur working under the joint supervision of Prof. Harish C. Karnick and Prof. Manindra Agrawal.

I am currently working at Microsoft Research as a postodoctoral Research Fellow. I maintain a temporary homepage [here] which has some more stuff like recent talks, drafts of recent publications etc.

My research was supported by a Microsoft Research India Ph.D. fellowship award. I received a research grant from Yahoo! as a part of the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challanges Program 2012. I have also received funding and travel support from the Research-I Foundation.

My Resume [pdf].

I am broadly interested in machine learning with special emphasis on online learning and kernel methods. I also maintain an avid interest in complexity theory, data streaming algorithms, computational geometry and cognitive science.

EDUCATION
  1. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2008-2013 (CPI - 9.60).
  2. Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2004-2008 (CPI - 9.90).
more on my schooling ...

I (used to) look like this (in 2009) when not posterized by GIMP. I have progressed on to more ... ahem ... voluminous proportions which is why these days I refrain from letting any camera point at me :)