Siddhant Sharma

Experience

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  Dec 2020 - Aug 2021

  Supervised by Prof. Sandeep Kumar, School of Artificial Intelligence, IIT Delhi.Developed an algorithm to cluster data using Robust and Sparse Eigenvectors from the learnt graph Laplacian which performed better than scikit-learn’s SpectralClustering method on a variety of noisy datasets with outliers. Supervised by Prof. Keerti Choudhary, Department of Computer Science, IIT Delhi.Created an oracle of linear space and O(1) query time to report the min-cut set of a 2-Fault Tolerant (FT) Graph. Developed structures such as sub-mincut and sub-strip for reporting min-cut values of 3/4-FT Graphs.

  • Research Assistant

    Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  • Research Assistant

    Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
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  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  Nov 2021 - Dec 2021

  Research Assistant

  Supervised by Prof. Srikanta Bedathur, Department of Computer Science, IIT Delhi.Developed a MIDI-based approach for faster music recognition which achieved a recall of 0.94 and boosted extracted melody’s stability by 10% (please refer to the Clarinet paper in the publications section for more details).

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  Universität des Saarlandes

  May 2022 - Feb 2023

  Student Researcher, Research Intern

  Supervised by Prof. Jörg Hoffmann, Informatics Department, Saarland University.Funded by DAAD WISE scholarship and Tuples AI grant. Learnt action policies represented by neural networks, graph neural networks, and tree ensembles and verified their safety for the first time using a CEGAR approach (please refer to the AAAI23 paper in the publications section for more details).

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  Aug 2022 - Sept 2023

  Supervised by Prof. Rohan Paul, Department of Computer Science, IIT Delhi.Created a methodology for learning context-aware rules from trivial unsupervised demonstrations for generalisable planning with 65% higher goal reaching rate and 95% lower planning time compared to SOTA (please refer to the ICRA24 paper in the publications section for more details). Supervised by Prof. Jayadeva, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi.Led a project funded by the National Highways Association of India (NHAI), collaborated on a publication with UltraTech Cement Ltd, and undertook other projects funded by 3 research grants by IIT Delhi. High-level descriptions of the 5 projects are given in the relevant section. Course coordinators: Prof. S. Dharmaraja and Prof. Ananta K. Majee, Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi.Teaching assistant for course MTL106, Probability and Stochastic Processes.

  • Junior Researcher, Research Assistant

    Aug 2022 - Sept 2023

  • Project Lead, Research Assistant

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
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  University of Oxford

  Feb 2024 - Sept 2024

  Research Assistant

  Supervised by Prof. Shimon Whiteson, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.Learning how to fine-tune robotics foundation models and maintain generalizability over tasks.