Experience - Arun Verma

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre Sep 2024 – Present

Postdoctoral Associate, M3S Program

Designing novel resource-efficient machine learning algorithms for efficient and effective AI systems.
Formulate novel research directions and lead high-impact, long-term research projects.
Mentoring and supporting junior researchers and interns with their research projects.

National University of Singapore May 2021 – Aug 2024

Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science

Developed machine learning algorithms for sequential decision-making problems related to multi-armed bandits, Bayesian optimization, active learning, and reinforcement learning, with applications in AutoML and LLMs.
Mentored Ph.D. students with their research projects.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Jan 2021 – Apr 2021

Research Associate, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Studied the impact of auxiliary information associated with reward to derive a tighter variance bound for the mean reward estimator and exploited it to design more efficient algorithms for sequential decision-making problems.

INRIA Lille Jun 2019 – Nov 2019

Raman-Charpak Fellow, SequeL Team (now SCOOL)

Worked on the sequential decision-making problem with time-series data, motivated by health-related scenarios where a person has to decide whether to visit a physician based on their health history.

Conduent Labs Aug 2018 – Nov 2018

PhD Intern, Machine Learning & Statistics Group

Designed and analyzed sequential decision-making algorithms for efficient resource allocation under censored data constraints, where true data is accessible only under specific conditions.

Indian Institute of Science Jul 2015 – Dec 2015

Research Assistant, Department of Computational and Data Sciences

Developed a Big Data analytics platform for resource management using open-source frameworks (Spark, Storm, HBase, HDFS, Apollo) and data visualization tools (Node.js, D3) to improve monitoring and decision-making.

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Jul 2014 – Jun 2015

Project Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Worked on BodhiTree, an online classroom learning platform. Collaborated with students on projects to add new features and improve existing functionalities.

Project Research Intern, Department of Civil Engineering Jan 2014 – Jun 2014

Developed an Android app for real-time tracking of IIT Bombay campus buses.
Designed an algorithm to compute and display the shortest route on Google Maps using stored geographical data for offline use.