Awarded the Top 5% Teaching Award by ASU's Fulton Schools of Engineering in 2024; Panelist at IEEE + FSE Learning and Teaching Hub AI in Education Event; Published multiple papers including 'Active Sequential Two-Sample Testing' (TMLR), 'On Characterizations of Potential and Ordinal Potential Games' (arXiv), and 'Unraveling Overoptimism and Publication Bias in ML-driven Science' (arXiv); Presented three conference papers at ICASSP 2024 and LION 2024.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral fellow at Rice University and Carnegie Mellon University, working with Rich Baraniuk and Aarti Singh, respectively. Currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University and an Amazon Scholar.
Education
Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, advised by Rob Nowak and Stark Draper; B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from VIT University in India.
Background
Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. Also an Amazon Scholar, working on machine learning and optimization problems. Research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, information processing, and networked systems, focusing on data- and compute-efficient learning algorithms in resource-constrained environments.