Sujay Sanghavi
Scholar

Sujay Sanghavi

Google Scholar ID: O-DazBUAAAAJ
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin
Machine LearningOptimization and AlgorithmsNetworks
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,582
 
H-index
36
 
i10-index
75
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
42
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • ICML 2025 Papers:
  • - Upweighting Easy Samples in Fine-Tuning Mitigates Forgetting
  • - Learning Mixtures of Experts with EM: A Mirror Descent Perspective
  • - Retraining with Predicted Hard Labels Provably Increases Model Accuracy
  • - Geometric Median Matching for Robust k-Subset Selection from Noisy Data
  • ICLR 2025 Papers:
  • - Enhancing Language Model Agents using Diversity of Thoughts
  • - Infilling Score: A Pretraining Data Detection Algorithm for Large Language Models
  • Graduated PhD students: Rudrajit Das (headed to Google Research) and Anish Acharya (headed to AWS)
  • Completed MS degrees: Atula Tejaswi (continuing at UT for a PhD) and Vijay Lingam (headed to Amazon Q)
  • Invited talk in Workshop on Theoretical Perspectives on LLMs (March 2025)
Research Experience
  • Since 2019, he has been a Principal Research Scientist and then an Amazon Scholar, working in Amazon’s Search org; Visiting Scientist at Google Research; Senior quant and founding member of an algorithmic trading team at the hedge fund Engineers Gate.
Background
  • Research interests are in machine learning, with a current focus on understanding and improving the architecture and training of large-scale models for language and representation learning. Also broadly interested in understanding machine learning from a theoretical perspective.