Speakers


Furong Huang
University of Maryland
USA
From Perception to Action: World Model Learning for Generalist Agents
Aviral Kumar
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
USA
Train-Time and Test-Time Exploration in Language Models
M. Vidyasagar
Indian Institute of Technology
Hyderabad
Convergence of General Momentum-Based Optimization Algorithms with Time-Varying Parameters
Prashanth L.A
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras
Policy Evaluation for variance in risk-sensitive reinforcement learning
Dheeraj Nagraj
Google DeepMind
Bengaluru
Fine-Tuning Diffusion Models via Intermediate Distribution Shaping
Arunselvan Ramaswamy
Karlstad University
Sweden
Dealing with variance and constraints in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pranay Sharma
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay
Natural Policy Gradient for Reinforcement Learning in Non-stationary Environments
Raunak Bhattacharyya
Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi
Reinforcement Learning for safety-aware autonomous navigation
Swanand Khare
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
Training to Forgetting: Efficient and Compliant MLaaS Pipelines
Serdar Yüksel
Queen's University
Canada
Lift-Metrize-Quantize-Q-Learn: A General Recipe for Learning in Stochastic Control with General Information Structures
Paras Chopra
Lossfunk
Bengaluru
Meta-RL: Reviewing recent progress in learning and evolving RL algorithms
Sridharan Devarajan
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru
Sequential Attention-based Sampling for Histopathological Analysis
Shubhada Agrawal
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru
Concentration of Stochastic Approximation Under Markovian Noise
Karthik Gurumoorthy
Walmart Global Tech
Bengaluru
Reinforcement Learning for E-commerce Inventory Management

Schedule


Timings are as per the Indian Standard Time
Day 8:45am to 9:00am 9:00am to 10:00am 10:00am to 10:30am 10.30am to 11.30am 11:30 am to 12:30 pm 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Thursday
15th January 2026
Tutorial: RL Theory Gugan Thoppe (IISc) Slides Coffee Break Tutorial: RL Theory Gugan Thoppe (IISc) Slides Tutorial: RL Theory Gugan Thoppe (IISc) Slides Lunch Tutorial: RL Theory Gugan Thoppe (IISc) Slides Tutorial: RL Simulations Eshwar S. R. / Girik Khullar (IISc) Slides Coffee Break Tutorial: RL Simulations Eshwar S. R. /Girik Khullar (IISc) Slides
Friday
16th January 2026
Inauguration by CSA Chair Furong Huang (UMD) (Online) Coffee Break Vivek Borkar(IIT Bombay) Slides M Vidyasagar(IIT Hyderabad) Slides Lunch Dheeraj Nagraj(Google) Slides Raunak B(IIT Delhi) Slides Coffee Break Arunselvan Ramaswamy(Karistad University) Slides
Saturday
17th January 2026
Serdar Yuksel(Queens)(Online) Coffee Break Sridharan Devarajan(IISc) Slides Prashanth L A(IIT Madras) Slides Lunch Paras Chopra(LossFunk) Slides Karthik Sundaresan(Walmart) Coffee Break Pranay Sharma(IIT Bombay) Slides
Sunday
18th January 2026
Aviral Kumar(CMU) (Online)Slides Coffee Break Shubhada Agarwal(IISc) Slides Swanand Khare(IIT Madras) Slides Lunch Networking and Casual Discussions Networking and Casual Discussions Coffee Break Networking and Casual Discussions
Cultural Event : 16th January - (06:30 pm to 07:30 pm): Live Performance by Vidwan Kumareshji
(Followed by Gala Dinner at 7:45 pm)

Organizers



Staff

Kushael A
IISc
Akshay Nath
IISc
Sanjay M
IISc

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