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General Information
Full Name | Aniruddh G. Puranic |
puranic[at]usc[dot]edu | |
Linktree | https://linktr.ee/andyruddh |
Education
- 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
Experience
- 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
Academic Activities and Interests
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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
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Interests.
- Reinforcement learning
- Learning from demonstrations/imitation learning
- Formal methods and logic-based reasoning, verification
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Electronic music production, Tennis.