Aviral Kumar
Office 7125 Gates and Hillman Centers
Email aviralku@andrew.cmu.edu
Department
Computer Science Department
Administrative Support Person
Patricia Loring
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
Advisees
Bhavya Kumar Agrawalla
Max Sobol Mark
CSD Courses Taught
15889 - Fall, 2024
Biography
Aviral Kumar is an Assistant Professor in SCS, jointly appointed in CSD and MLD. He finished his PhD from UC Berkeley in September 2023, where he was awarded the CV Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, given to 1 student at UC Berkeley for outstanding contributions to a new research area in CS, Apple PhD fellowship, and a Facebook PhD fellowship.
Research Statement
Aviral's research focuses on reinforcement learning and decision-making, in particular on offline reinforcement learning, scaling up reinforcement learning, and more recently on the intersection of reinforcement learning and foundation models.