PhD completed in August 2018 with a thesis on similarity learning, metric estimation, and group covariant neural networks.
Primary PhD advisor: Prof. Gregory Shakhnarovich at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC).
Collaborated closely with Prof. Risi Kondor (University of Chicago) and Prof. Brian D. Nord (Kavli Institute/Fermilab, Deep Skies Lab) during PhD.
Earned an MS focusing on Machine Learning prior to PhD candidacy.
Earlier MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute under Profs. Neil T. Heffernan and Gábor N. Sárközy, with thesis reader Sonia Chernova; thesis introduced a new clustering algorithm based on Szemerédi Regularity Lemma and a clustering-based ensemble method akin to mixture of experts.
Background
Broad interests in Machine Learning, with a focus on (deep and otherwise) representation learning, structured prediction, and semi/weakly/self-supervised learning.
Currently exploring supervised similarity and distance learning in low-shot regimes and representation learning for combinatorial structures like graphs and sets.
Designing neural architectures with task-relevant symmetries using group and representation theory (group-equivariant neural networks) for principled and data-efficient design.
Draws inspiration from applications in computer vision and physical sciences, especially computational chemistry and physics.
Maintains an amateur interest in extremal combinatorics and spectral graph theory.