Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
May - August 2011
Summer intern in the Computational User Experiences (CUE)
research group. Worked on applying machine learning
algorithms on large-scale datasets on human muscle activity.
Mentored by Dan
Morris.
RWTH University, Aachen, Germany
May - August 2009
Summer intern at the Knowledge-Based Systems Group (KBSG) where I
worked on learning by demonstration on the Nao Humanoid
robot. Mentored by Prof.
Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Texas Instruments, Bangalore,
India
May - August 2008
Summer intern where I worked on developing video
compression techniques for mobile devices. Mentored by Ajit
Gupte.
Academic
Attended a 2 week summer school on Deep Learning,
Feature Learning (link)
at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA in July 2012.
Teaching Assistant in Spring 2012 for Machine
Learning (CS 4641), an undergraduate CS course at Georgia
Tech.
Program Committee Member for
Interactive Machine Learning Workshop at IUI 2013 (link)
Symposium on Robots Learning Interactively from Human
Teachers at AAAI 2012 (link)
Cleared the CS qualifying exam in Spring 2012
(includes a comprehensive written component and an oral
presentation).
Lab Affiliations
Research Assistant at the pfunk
Machine Learning Lab led by Prof. Charles Isbell
Adjunct Member of the Real-Life Reinforcement
Learning Lab (RL3)
led by Prof. Michael Littman
Research Trainee at the WAran Research Foundation (WARFT)
led by Prof. N. Venkateswaran