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<!-- <article> <div class="cv"> <div class="card mt-3 p-3"> <h3 class="card-title font-weight-medium">General Information</h3> <div> <table class="table table-sm table-borderless table-responsive"> <tr> <td class="p-1 pr-2 font-weight-bold"><b>Full Name</b></td> <td class="p-1 pl-2 font-weight-light text">Aniruddh G. Puranic</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="p-1 pr-2 font-weight-bold"><b>E-mail</b></td> <td class="p-1 pl-2 font-weight-light text">puranic[at]usc[dot]edu</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="p-1 pr-2 font-weight-bold"><b>Linktree</b></td> <td class="p-1 pl-2 font-weight-light text">https://linktr.ee/andyruddh</td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="card mt-3 p-3"> <h3 class="card-title font-weight-medium">Education</h3> <div> <ul class="card-text font-weight-light list-group list-group-flush"> <li class="list-group-item"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-2 cl-sm-2 col-md-2 text-center" style="width: 75px;"> <span class="badge font-weight-bold danger-color-dark text-uppercase align-middle" style="min-width: 75px;"> 2023 (expected) </span> </div> <div class="col-xs-10 cl-sm-10 col-md-10 mt-2 mt-md-0"> <h6 class="title font-weight-bold ml-1 ml-md-4">Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)</h6> <h6 class="ml-1 ml-md-4" style="font-size: 0.95rem;">University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA</h6> <ul class="items"> <li> <span class="item">Safe human-robot interaction: Learning-from-Demonstrations with Temporal Logics</span> </li> <li> <span class="item">Probabilistic inference of human behaviors via temporal logic-based reward functions</span> </li> <li> <span class="item">Specification-guided LfD</span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-2 cl-sm-2 col-md-2 text-center" style="width: 75px;"> <span class="badge font-weight-bold danger-color-dark text-uppercase align-middle" style="min-width: 75px;"> 2018 </span> </div> <div class="col-xs-10 cl-sm-10 col-md-10 mt-2 mt-md-0"> <h6 class="title font-weight-bold ml-1 ml-md-4">Master of Science (M.S.)</h6> <h6 class="ml-1 ml-md-4" style="font-size: 0.95rem;">University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA</h6> <ul class="items"> <li> <span class="item">Intelligent Robotics specialization</span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-2 cl-sm-2 col-md-2 text-center" style="width: 75px;"> <span class="badge font-weight-bold danger-color-dark text-uppercase align-middle" style="min-width: 75px;"> 2016 </span> </div> <div class="col-xs-10 cl-sm-10 col-md-10 mt-2 mt-md-0"> <h6 class="title font-weight-bold ml-1 ml-md-4">Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)</h6> <h6 class="ml-1 ml-md-4" style="font-size: 0.95rem;">B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India</h6> <ul class="items"> <li> <span class="item">Computer Science and Engineering</span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="card mt-3 p-3"> <h3 class="card-title font-weight-medium">Experience</h3> <div> <ul class="card-text font-weight-light list-group list-group-flush"> <li class="list-group-item"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-2 cl-sm-2 col-md-2 text-center" style="width: 75px;"> <span class="badge font-weight-bold danger-color-dark text-uppercase align-middle" style="min-width: 75px;"> Summer 2022 </span> </div> <div class="col-xs-10 cl-sm-10 col-md-10 mt-2 mt-md-0"> <h6 class="title font-weight-bold ml-1 ml-md-4">Research Intern</h6> <h6 class="ml-1 ml-md-4" style="font-size: 0.95rem;">SRI International, Princeton, USA</h6> <ul class="items"> <li> <span class="item">Reinforcement learning for continual/lifelong learning in multi-agent systems</span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-2 cl-sm-2 col-md-2 text-center" style="width: 75px;"> <span class="badge font-weight-bold danger-color-dark text-uppercase align-middle" style="min-width: 75px;"> 2019 </span> </div> <div class="col-xs-10 cl-sm-10 col-md-10 mt-2 mt-md-0"> <h6 class="title font-weight-bold ml-1 ml-md-4">Researcher</h6> <h6 class="ml-1 ml-md-4" style="font-size: 0.95rem;">Toyota North America R\&D - InfoTech Labs, Mountain View, USA</h6> <ul class="items"> <li> <span class="item">Intelligent Connected Systems division</span> </li> <li> <span class="item">Data management via edge computing for connected vehicles</span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="card mt-3 p-3"> <h3 class="card-title font-weight-medium">Academic Activities and Interests</h3> <div> <ul class="card-text font-weight-light list-group list-group-flush"> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5 class="font-italic">Co-curricular activities.</h5> <ul class="subitems"> <li><span class="subitem">Invited talk at the <a href="https://interactive.mit.edu/" target="blank0">Interactive Robotics Group</a> (MIT AeroAstro/CSAIL) on "Learning from Demonstrations with Temporal Logic Task Specifications", January 2023</span></li> <li><span class="subitem">Poster and demo program committee member for <a href="https://hscc.acm.org/2023/" target="blank0">HSCC 2023</a></span></li> <li><span class="subitem">Review Editor for <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/sections/human-robot-interaction" target="blank0">"Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Human-Robot Interaction"</a></span></li> <li><span class="subitem">Invited talk at <a href="https://galois.com" target="blank0">Galois, Inc.</a> on "Reinforcement Learning from Demonstrations with Temporal Logics", March 2021</span></li> <li><span class="subitem">1 US patent (number <b>11,394,612</b>) granted: <i>Distributed systems and extracting configurations for edge servers using driving scenario awareness</i></span></li> <li><span class="subitem">3 other US Patent Applications filed</span></li> </ul> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5 class="font-italic">Interests.</h5> <ul class="subitems"> <li><span class="subitem">Reinforcement learning</span></li> <li><span class="subitem">Learning from demonstrations/imitation learning</span></li> <li><span class="subitem">Formal methods and logic-based reasoning, verification</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="card mt-3 p-3"> <h3 class="card-title font-weight-medium">Other Interests</h3> <div> <ul class="card-text font-weight-light list-group list-group-flush"> <li class="list-group-item"><u>Tennis:</u> National-level junior player.</li> <li class="list-group-item"><u>Electronic Music Producer:</u> Released album featured in Beatport Top-50 globally.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </article> -->