About me

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Arindam Banerjee. I also closely work with Aadirupa Saha. In the past I obtained a Master’s degree from the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, working with Shalabh Bhatnagar and Gugan Thoppe.

I am broadly interested in Machine Learning with an emphasis on Sequential decision making under uncertainty. I am currently interested in the following research threads:

  • Neural Contextual Bandits
  • Online Learning under resource constraints
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Learning: Optimization, Generalization, and Geometry

Selected Papers

  • Contextual Bandits with Online Neural Regression | arxiv
    Rohan Deb, Yikun Ban, Shiliang Zuo, Jingrui He, Arindam Banerjee
    Accepted at 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

  • Think Before You Duel: Understanding Complexities of Preference Learning under Constrained Resources | arxiv
    Rohan Deb, Aadirupa Saha, Arindam Banerjee
    Accepted at 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2024

News

⭐ Jan-2024: One paper accepted at AISTATS, 2024
⭐ Jan 2024: One paper accepted at ICLR, 2024
⭐ Aug 2023: Presented our paper at UAI, 2023 at Pittsburgh
⭐ Aug 2022: Started Phd in CS at UIUC