Navdeep Kumar
My Experiences
Roles & Responsibilities
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Visiting Scholar at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France
Topic: Mathematical modelling of Tangle, a blockchain protocol.
Mentors: Prof. Alexandre Reiffers, Prof. Isabel Amigo
September 2020 - April 2021
Project Associate at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru India
Topic: Constrained Multi-arm Bandit
Mentors: Prof. Gugan Thoppe, Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India and Prof. Alexandre Reiffers, IMT Atlantique, Brest , France.
Education
Oct 2022- Present
PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Science, Technion, Israel Insitute of Technolgy.
August 2019 - July 2020
Master of Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
August 2015- July 2019
Bachelor of Science (Research), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
Publications
Efficient Policy Iteration for Robust Markov Decision Processes via Regularization
Under review NeurIPS 2022
Authors: Navdeep Kumar, Kfir Levy, Kaixin Wang, Shie Mannor
The Geometery of Robust Value Functions
ICML 2022
Authors: Kaixin Wang, Navdeep Kumar, Kuangqi Zhou, Bryan Hooi, Jiashi Feng, Shie Mannor
Policy Gradient for Reinforcement Learning with General Utilities
RLDM 2022
Authors: Navdeep Kumar, Kaixin Wang, Kfir Levy, Shie Mannor
My Favourite Books
Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Allan Pease
Interests and Hobbies
Flute
My Latest Hobby
Into the Nature
Ready Anytime
Sapiens
"Evolution created us with no purpose."