- Published multiple papers in top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, etc.
- Sample publications: 'Inference-time Alignment in Continuous Space', 'Simple Distillation for One-Step Diffusion Models', 'On a Connection Between Imitation Learning and RLHF', etc.
- Academic Services: Program Committee Member & Reviewer for several international conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, WSDM, ACL ARR, SIGIR, RecSys, CIKM, TheWebConf, LoG, COLM; Journal Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher and Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the University of Washington
Education
- PhD, Pennsylvania State University, Advisor: Prof. Vasant Honavar
- Postdoctoral Researcher (and Young Investigator), Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the University of Washington, Advisors: Prof. Noah A. Smith and Prof. Hanna Hajishirzi
Background
- Research Interests: Machine learning, reinforcement learning, language models
- Current Research Focus: (i) AI Alignment with Human Feedback (ii) Reasoning and Planning for Autonomous Decision Making