Aviral Kumar Assistant Professor Google Scholars Link 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.
