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Affiliation
Contact
  • Email: sayak@iisc.ac.in
Background
  • Project Associate, IISc (2015-2016)
  • Associate Data Analytics Enginee, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. (2015)
  • M.E in Systems Science and Automation, IISc (2013-2015)
  • B.E in Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University (2008-2012)

Research Interest

My research interests include reinforcement Learning, online learning, multi-armed bandits and bayesian optimization. Specifically, I am interested in sequential decision making problems with applications in sensor networks, recommendation systems and social networks. Previously during my masters thesis, I worked in the intersection of robust Optimization and game theory. Here is my detailed cv.


Publications

  • Sayak Ray Chowdhury and Aditya Gopalan, Online Learning in Kernelized Markov Decision processes. [arxiv]
    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2019.
  • Sayak Ray Chowdhury and Aditya Gopalan, On Batch Bayesian Optimization. [pdf]
    All of Bayesian Nonparametrics workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018.
  • Sayak Ray Chowdhury and Aditya Gopalan, Online Learning in Kernelized Markov Decision processes. [pdf]
    Infer to Control: Probabilistic Reinforcement Learning and Structured Control workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018.
  • Sayak Ray Chowdhury and Aditya Gopalan, On Kernelized Multi-armed Bandits. [pdf] [arxiv] [bibtex]
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2017.
  • Avishek Ghosh, Sayak Ray Chowdhury and Aditya Gopalan, Misspecified Linear Bandits. [pdf] [arxiv] [bibtex]
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2017.

Thesis


Talks

  • All of Bayesian Nonparametrics workshop, NeurIPS, 2018. [poster]
  • Infer to Control: Probabilistic Reinforcement Learning and Structured Control workshop, NeurIPS, 2018. [poster]
  • PhD fellowship summit, Google MTV, 2018. [poster]
  • PhD comprehensive examination, IISc, 2018. [slides]
  • ICML, 2017. [slides] [poster]
  • ECE student seminar Series, IISc, 2017. [slides]

Awards

  • ICML travel award, 2017.
  • Microsoft Research India travel grant for ICML, 2017.
  • Google Research travel grant for ICML, 2017.
  • Google India PhD fellowship in machine learning, 2017.