Arun Verma

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Department of Computer Science at National University of Singapore, where I am advised by Prof. Bryan Kian Hsiang Low.

Prior to this, I obtained my Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), where Prof. Manjesh K. Hanawal and Prof. N. Hemachandra supervised me. My doctoral thesis received two awards: Naik and Rastogi Excellence in Ph. D. Thesis Award and COMSNETS Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.

My research interests primarily lie in developing and analyzing efficient and practical algorithms for sequential decision-making problems by exploiting the underlying problem structures. My recent research has focused on sequential decision-making under uncertainty problems, with special emphasis on multi-armed bandits, Bayesian optimization, and reinforcement learning, with their practical applications in a wide range of domains such as LLMs, AutoML, Collaborative ML, and AI for Science.

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Research
"Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been... I'm interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it." — David Blackwell
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Awards

  • COMSNETS 2022 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for my Ph.D. thesis.
  • Naik and Rastogi Excellence in Ph. D. Thesis Award (Best Thesis Award of IIT Bombay) for doctoral research.
  • Microsoft Travel Grant (not used due to Covid-19 travel restrictions) and COMSNETS Association and LRN Foundation Travel Award for attending IEEE INFOCOM 2020.
  • Travel Award from LinkedIn for attending FATE-ML workshop 2020 at IISc, Bengaluru, India.
  • Google Travel Grant and NeurIPS Student Travel Award for attending NeurIPS 2019.
  • Raman-Charpak Fellowship 2018 for visiting SequeL Team of INRIA Lille, France.
  • ACM-India/IARCS and Microsoft Travel Grant for attending AISTATS 2019.
  • Technical Color Award of Hostel-14, IIT Bombay for year 2017-18 and 2018-19.
  • Sports Color Award (Cricket) of Hostel-14, IIT Bombay for year 2017-18.
  • Conference Travel Awards from HiPC 2016, CoDS 2017, CoDS-COMAD 2018, AUAPAF 2018.
  • IITB Research Internship Award 2013-14 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
  • Academic Excellence Award (Gold Medal) for having the highest CGPA in B.Tech.(CSE).
Services

  • Program Committee Board member of IJCAI 2022-2024.
  • Program Committee (PC) member/reviewer of
    • 2024: AAAI-24, ICLR-24, AISTATS-24, AAMAS-24, TMLR
    • 2023: AAAI-23, ICLR-23, AISTATS-23, AAMAS-23, IJCAI-23, ICML-23, NeurIPS-23, TMLR
    • 2022: AAAI-22, ICLR-22, AISTATS-22, IJCAI-22, ICML-22, NeurIPS-22, TMLR
    • 2021: AAAI-21, ICLR-21, IJCAI-21, ICML-21, NeurIPS-21
    • 2020: NeurIPS-20

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Last updated on: September 22, 2023.