Pratik Gajane

I'm a grad student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I work under the guidance of Dr. B.Ravindran in Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning.

Research interets:
My research interests span across Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Algorithmic learning theory and Robotics. I seek to understand how an intelligent agent "learns" from its interactions with the environment. How is it done? How can we model the interactions in a better way so as to make learning efficient? Which strategies can be used to learn? What are the computational issues in doing this efficiently and in real-time? These are the sort of questions that I am trying to find the answers of.

The current major theme of my research is multi-armed bandit problems.

Eductaion:
Master of Technology, Computer Science, IIT Madras (July 2012 - May 2014)
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, PVG's College of Engineering and Technology (July 2005 - May 2009)

Courses Taken:
Machine Learning, Reinfocement Learning, Convex Optimization, Artificial Inteliigence, Data mining, Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms.

Teaching Assitantship
Fall 2013: Introduction to Machine Learning.
Spring 2013: Introduction to Computational Engineering