Curriculum vitae

Experience

PhD in Computer Science, University of Waterloo 2020 - 2024
Advised by: Kimon Fountoulakis and Aukosh Jagannath
Master of Mathematics in Computer Science, University of Waterloo 2018 - 2020
Advised by: Jeffrey Shallit
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, IIT Jodhpur 2012 - 2016

Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Waterloo 2025
Cheriton Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 10,000 CAD 2024
Talent bursary, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute 2024
Top reviewer award, Learning on Graphs conference 2024
Talent bursary, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute 2023
President's Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 10,000 CAD 2023
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Province of Ontario + UWaterloo, 15,000 CAD 2023
Top reviewer award, Learning on Graphs conference 2022
Best paper award, GroundedML workshop at ICLR 2022
Graduate Excellence Award, Faculty of Math, UWaterloo, 5,000 CAD annually 2020 -2022

Locally Optimal Message-passing on Feature-decorated Sparse Graphs May 2024
Banff International Research Station, Canada
Optimality of Message-passing Architectures for Sparse Graphs Dec 2023
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, US
Effects of Graph Convolutions in Multi-layer Networks Apr 2023
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (virtual talk)
Graph Convolutions for semi-supervised learning Jul 2021
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (virtual talk)
Repetitions in infinite palindrome-rich words Sep 2019
International Conference on Words, Loughborough University, England
Anomaly detection and monitoring of metrics in Azure services Jan 2017
Microsoft Corporation