Assistant Professor
Bio
Anant Raj is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He joined the department in October 2024. Until September 2024, he was a Marie Curie Fellow, jointly hosted by Prof Francis Bach at SIERRA Project Team (Inria) and Prof Maxim Raginsky at the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at UIUC. Prior to that, he completed his PhD in Machine Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in the Empirical Inference Department.
Expertise
His research interests lie in understanding challenges in general machine learning theory and applications, with a specific focus on optimization theory, kernel methods, and the theoretical foundations of machine learning. Additionally, he is interested in applying machine learning methods within the healthcare domain.