education
- 2023 – 2027
Ph.D., Computer Science · NTU Singapore
Thesis: Neurosymbolic Techniques for Safe and Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Advisors: Arvind Easwaran, Blaise Genest - 2019 – 2021
M.Tech., Computer Science · ISI Kolkata
Thesis: Strategies for User Allocation and Service Placement in Multi-Access Edge Computing
Advisor: Ansuman Banerjee · Best thesis nomination (top 5 of batch) - 2012 – 2016
B.Tech., Electronics & Instrumentation · NIT Silchar
Thesis: Real-Time Position Control of DC Motor using PID and Fuzzy Logic
experience
- 2022 – 2023
Research Associate · CNRS@CREATE, Singapore
Granular control of microgrids with deep RL.
- 2021 – 2022
Machine Learning Engineer · InFocusp, attached to Google X
RL approaches to the Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge (ARC).
- 2021
Research Engineer · TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad
Drive-by-wire braking/throttle control; lane detection on NVIDIA AGX.
teaching & mentoring
- 2026
Reinforcement Learning · Deep Learning Bootcamp, NTU
Lecture with hands-on notebooks. materials
- FYP
Undergraduate final-year projects · NTU
LLM steering for safer embodied planning; programmatic policies from pre-trained models; robustness vs. explainability in CNNs.
- URECA
Undergraduate research mentoring · NTU
Mechanistic interpretability of Decision Transformers; ARC with LLMs; physics-inspired model-based RL; residual RL.
- F1Tenth
Mentor, autonomous racing team · NTU DeepSpeed
Built the ROS 2 race stack on Jetson AGX.
service
- reviewer
NeurIPS, AAAI, AAMAS, ECAI, CAV, RTSS, NeSy, IEEE TSMC
- 2025 – 2026
Vice President, CCDS Graduate Students' Club, NTU
- 2023 – 2024
Director of Career & Development, SCSE Graduate Students' Club, NTU
awards
- 2023 – 2027
DesCartes PhD Scholarship, CNRS@CREATE (Singapore–France)
- 2019 – 2021
M.Tech Scholarship, ISI Kolkata
- 2006 – 2012
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Scholarship