About

Hi, I am a PhD student at MIT at the Department of EECS (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). I started my PhD in 2019 Fall.
My advisors are Professors Suvrit Sra and Ali Jadbabaie.
My research interest lies in Machine Learning, Optimization, and Learning for Control.

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2023 Summer and Fall: I'm currently doing a research internship at Google Research, NYC.

Work / Visiting (during PhD):

- Google Research, New York (Summer 2021)
PhD Research Intern in Learning Theory Team
Mentors: Prateek Jain, Satyen Kale, Praneeth Netrapalli, Gil Shamir

- Simons Institute, "Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling", Berkeley CA (Fall 2021)
Visiting Graduate Student

Google Research, New York (Summer&Fall 2023)
PhD Research Intern in Speech & Language Algorithms Team
Mentors: Ziteng SunAnanda Theertha SureshAhmad Beirami

Master Thesis:
From Proximal Point Method to Accelerated Methods on Riemannian Manifolds