Mridul Mahajan
mridulm [at] bu [dot] edu

Hi! I am a first-year PhD student at Boston University, where I work with Aldo Pacchiano and Xuezhou (Jack) Zhang.

Previously, I was a guest researcher in the Empirical Inference department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), advised by Dr. Dieter Büchler and Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf. I was also a research assistant in the Decision and Operation Technologies Group at Universität Bielefeld, advised by Prof. Dr. Kevin Tierney.

In the past, I was a visiting scholar in the Machine Teaching Group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), advised by Dr. Adish Singla.

I received a Dual Degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.) in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, where I worked with Prof. G. C. Nandi on antipodal robotic grasping.

I am broadly interested in reinforcement learning (RL) from both algorithmic and application-driven perspectives, especially in utilizing RL methods for robot learning.

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• [August 2022]

  I am attending the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School.

• [February 2022]

  I am selected to participate in Research Week with Google, organized by Google Research India!

• [January 2022]

  I am excited to join the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems for a research fellowship as a visiting scholar.

• [May 2021]

  I am grateful to have been awarded the DAAD-WISE fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service.

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