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 in the foundations and safety of Generative AI. More broadly, I am interested in Learning Theory, Causal Inference, Theoretical Machine Learning, and AI Safety.

My work has received the Best Paper Award at COLT, been featured in WIRED, and received the Sri Binay Kumar Sinha award from IIT Kanpur. As an undergraduate, I represented IIT Kanpur at the ICPC World Final. While at Yale, I also taught at the Yale ICPC Club.

Here is my Curriculum Vitae.

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Research Themes

  1. Foundations of Learning with Missing Data
  2. Algorithms for Language Models
  3. Foundations of Generative Models

Foundations of Learning with Missing Data

Missing data is prevalent and fundamentally alters what can be learned, predicted, or estimated. When is learning still possible, and can traditional methods suffice, or must we develop entirely new frameworks?

Algorithms for Language Models

How can we improve language-model safety and reasoning at inference time, without additional training?

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

Foundations of Generative Models

Generation is fundamentally different from prediction. What counts as success in generation? When is it possible? And which trade-offs are unavoidable?

  • Hallucination–mode-collapse tradeoffs:STOC 2025 (FORC'26 Highlights) · ALT 2026
  • Generation with bounded memory:Paper 2026
  • Generation under contamination:COLT 2026
  • Is feedback/post-training necessary?STOC 2025 · ICML 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)