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Hi there, I’m Shivam, a senior in the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay. I am also pursuing a minor in Artificial Intelligence.

I love playing with numbers and working on probability puzzles. This interest manifests into a love for Statistics, Learning Theory and algorithm design.

I consider myself fortunate to be working with Prof. Vivek Borkar for my Bachelors Thesis Project. I am currently working on an optimal control formulation of the reverse denoising process in generative modelling. My initial thesis work on Asymptotic Risk Measures for Markov Chains has been accepted at IEEE SPCOM 2024. Read more on arXiv.

I spent the last summer at the beautiful USC Viterbi School of Engineering working with Prof. Meisam Razaviyayn on fair ML. My research was supported by the IUSSTF-Viterbi research grant by the Government of India. Our work “f-FERM: A Scalable Framework for Robust Fair Empirical Risk Minimization” will appear at The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024). An initial version was presented at the 15th OPT-ML Workshop, NeurIPS 2023. Please read more on arXiv.

Some relatively non-academic things about me -

I am an avid birdwatcher, and spend most of my winter Sunday mornings at the nature park with a pair of binoculars and the Helm Field Guide.
I also play tabla and harmonium occasionally.
Quite a philosopher myself. Speak 4 languages.

Please read my CV or visit Scholar profile to learn more about my work and interests.