Shivani Agarwal

[Note for Prospective PhD Students] | [PhD Students Advised] | [Masters Students Advised]

Note for Prospective PhD Students: If you are interested in doing a PhD with me, apply to the UPenn CIS PhD program, indicate Machine Learning as your first preference for research area, and list me as a potential research advisor.

PhD Students Advised

• Mingyuan Zhang
  • PhD Thesis: Statistical Machine Learning for Complex Classification Problems
    
    
• Prathamesh Patil (Co-advised with Sanjeev Khanna)
  • PhD Thesis: Towards Scalability and Robustness for Ranking, Clustering, and Multi-Armed Bandits
    
    
• Arpit Agarwal
  • PhD Thesis: On Connections Between Machine Learning and Information Elicitation, Choice Modeling, and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
  • Current position: Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay
    
    
• Harikrishna Narasimhan
  • PhD Thesis: Learning with Complex Performance Measures: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
  • Recipient of Google PhD Fellowship
  • Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  • Current position: Senior Research Scientist, Google Research
    
    
• Arun Rajkumar
  • PhD Thesis: Ranking from Pairwise Comparisons: The Role of the Pairwise Preference Matrix
  • Recipient of Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
  • Next position: Research Scientist, Xerox Research
  • Current position: Assistant Professor, IIT Madras
    
    
• Harish Guruprasad Ramaswamy
  • PhD Thesis: Design and Analysis of Consistent Algorithms for Multiclass Learning Problems
  • Recipient of TCS PhD Fellowship
  • Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Current position: Assistant Professor, IIT Madras

Masters Students Advised

• Arnab Sarker (Next position: PhD student at MIT)
• Jane Lee (Later: PhD student at Yale University)
• Yilong Ju (Next position: PhD student at Rice University)
• Siddartha Ramamohan
• Arpit Agarwal (Next position: PhD student at Indian Institute of Science and University of Pennsylvania)
• Suprovat Ghoshal (Later: PhD student at Indian Institute of Science)
• Aadirupa Saha (Next position: PhD student at Indian Institute of Science)
• Saneem Ahmed
• Anirban Laha
• Jay Nandy
• Chandrahas Dewangan (Later: PhD student at Indian Institute of Science)
• Harikrishna Narasimhan (Next position: PhD student at Indian Institute of Science)
• Priyanka Agrawal