I’m Abhratanu (I also go by ‘Abhro’), a fifth year PhD student in the Computer Science Theory Group at Northwestern University. I’m fortunate to be advised by Aravindan Vijayaraghavan. I received my Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science and Mathematics  from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2015.

I’m interested in algorithms and optimization broadly. My current research revolves around developing new algorithms with provable guarantees for machine learning problems.

My Curriculum Vitae.

Publications

• Computational Cost of Achieving Adversarial Robustness for PTFs, with Pranjal Awasthi and Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019
  arXiv link
• Clustering Stable Instances of Euclidean k-Means, with Aravindan Vijayaraghavan and Alex Wang, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2017
  arXiv link
• Provable guarantees for Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Mixture models, with Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Working Paper