About Me

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Hi there, I’m Shivam, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Gauri Joshi.

I have previously worked with Prof. Vivek Borkar for my Bachelors Thesis Project. My initial thesis work on Asymptotic Risk Measures for Markov Chains was presented at IEEE SPCOM 2024. Read more on arXiv. I later worked on an optimal control formulation of the reverse denoising process in generative modelling.

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.