About Me
I’m a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow (equivalent to pre-doctoral researcher) at the Centre for Responsible AI at IIT Madras, where I am supervised by Prof. Krishna Pillutla. Prior to this, I spent 5 wonderful years at IIT Madras earning my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering, advised by Prof. Balaraman Ravindran. My research interests lie primarily in the theory and practice of Trustworthy ML, with a focus on privacy-preserving and adversarially robust machine learning models.
My research at CeRAI is centred around differentially private synthetic data generation using LLMs; some of my recent work was accepted at NeurIPS 2025. I am also currently exploring interesting extensions of this work.
I was previously a Student Researcher at Google Research India, in the Advertising Sciences team, working on private offline reinforcment learning algorithms. I also spent an amazing summer at the University of British Columbia hosted by Prof. Apurva Narayan where I explored the adversarial robustness of quantum ML models.
Reach out to me at [firstname][lastname]2001@gmail[dot]com, to chat about research and more!
News
[November 2025] I will be attending NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego to present InvisibleInk!
[October 2025] InvisibleInk accepted at NeurIPS 2025. We generate synthetic text at scale with differential privacy guarantees, at 10x lesser computational cost than prior work. Grateful to my advisor Krishna Pillutla, and to Abhradeep Thakurta for their support!
[October 2025] Paper on “Preserving Expert-Level Privacy in Offline RL” accepted in TMLR 2025, as a top 10% submission (with a J2C Certification). Many thanks to my amazing collaborator Navodita and other fantastic collaborators at Google.
[July 2024] I will be joining CeRAI as a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow!
[June 2024] I have graduated with a Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras.
[February 2024] QuGAP accepted at AAAI 2024. We explore the existence and generation of UAPs for quantum classifiers. Thanks to my amazing collaborator Gautham, and to our mentor Apurva Narayan for his support!
[November 2023] I will be interning as a Student Researcher at Google Research for 6 months.