Scholar
Akshay Krishnamurthy
Google Scholar ID: K0kaNvkAAAAJ
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,979
H-index
48
i10-index
85
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers including 'Self-improvement in language models: The sharpening mechanism', 'Transformers learn shortcuts to automata', 'Efficient first order contextual bandits: Prediction, allocation, and triangular discrimination', and more, with several oral presentations at international conferences.
Research Experience
- Currently a Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, New York City. Previously, an assistant professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for two years, and a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, NYC for one year.
Education
- PhD: Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Aarti Singh; Undergraduate: EECS at UC Berkeley.
Background
- Research interests: machine learning and statistics, with a focus on interactive learning, decision making (including contextual bandits and reinforcement learning), and how these frameworks manifest in language modeling and generative AI.