cv | Aniruddh Puranic

2024 (expected)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
- Safe human-robot interaction: Learning-from-Demonstrations with Temporal Logics
- Probabilistic inference of human behaviors via temporal logic-based reward functions
- Specification-guided LfD
2018
Master of Science (M.S.)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
- Intelligent Robotics specialization
2016
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
- Computer Science and Engineering

Summer 2022
Research Intern

SRI International, Princeton, USA
- Reinforcement learning for continual/lifelong learning in multi-agent systems
2019
Researcher

Toyota North America R\&D - InfoTech Labs, Mountain View, USA
- Intelligent Connected Systems division
- Data management via edge computing for connected vehicles

Co-curricular activities.
- Review Editor for "Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Human-Robot Interaction"
- Invited talk at Galois, Inc. on "Reinforcement Learning from Demonstrations with Temporal Logics", March 2021
- 1 US patent (number 11,394,612) granted: Distributed systems and extracting configurations for edge servers using driving scenario awareness
- 3 other US Patent Applications filed
Interests.
- Reinforcement learning
- Learning from demonstrations/imitation learning
- Formal methods and logic-based reasoning, verification