I am a Motwani Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford hosted by Amin Saberi. I completed my Ph.D. at Yale University where I was fortunate to be advised by Amin Karbasi and Manolis Zampetakis.

I study machine learning in settings where standard assumptions fail (especially with missing or selectively observed data) and the foundations and safety of Generative AI.

My work has received the Best Paper Award at COLT and been featured in WIRED. I represented IIT Kanpur at the ICPC World Final and taught at the Yale ICPC Club.

Here is my Curriculum Vitae.

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Research Themes

Learning with Missing Data

What is learnable when data has missingness? And are existing methods enough for learning or do we need new approaches?

Algorithms for Language Models

How can algorithms help test the safety of LLMs and improve their reasoning abilities?

Impact: TAP, an automated red-teaming method, was used to safety-test Gemini and MAI-Thinking-1 and was covered by WIRED.

Foundations of Generative Models

What does successful generation mean? When can one learn to generate, and do we face any fundamental limitations?

  • Hallucination–mode-collapse tradeoffs (STOC 2025; FORC'26 Highlights), generation with bounded memory (Paper 2026), and contamination (COLT 2026)
  • Why diffusion models (DDPM) learn distributions so well?COLT 2026 (Best Short Paper at ICLR'25 workshop)
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Selected Awards

  • Invited Presentation, IJCAI (2026)
  • Best Paper Award, COLT (2025)
  • Sri Binay Kumar Sinha Award, IIT Kanpur (2020)
  • Rank 33 at the ICPC World Finals (2020)
  • Rank 1 at the ICPC Asia West-Continent Finals (2019)
  • Rank 1 at two different ICPC regionals (2019, 2019)