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\begin{document}
\begin{LARGE}
\textbf{Aditya Kusupati}
\end{LARGE}
\smallskip\\
Bill \& Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science \& Engineering\hfill \faEnvelope~\email{kusupati@cs.washington.edu}\\
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science \& Engineering\hfill \faHome~\href{\homepage}{adityakusupati.com}\\
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 
USA 98195 \hfill  \faGraduationCap~\href{https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=qULx8g8AAAAJ&hl=en}{Google Scholar}

\section{Education}
\textbf{University of Washington, Seattle} \hfill {\textit{2019 - present}}\\
\emph{PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering}\\%\hfill{GPA: 4.0/4.0}
        Advisors: \href{https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ali/}{Prof. Ali Farhadi} \& \href{https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~sham/}{Prof. Sham Kakade}\\

\textbf{Indian Institute of Technology Bombay} \hfill {\textit{2013 - 2017}}\\
\emph{B.Tech (Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering with Minor in Electrical Engineering}\\%\hfill{GPA: 8.63/10}
        Advisor: \href{http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/}{Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti}
        
\section{Work Experience}
\textbf{NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab} \hfill {\textit{June - September, 2020}}\\
\emph{Research Scientist Intern}\\
        Advisors: \href{http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~fidler/}{Prof. Sanja Fidler} \& \href{http://web.mit.edu/torralba/www/}{Prof. Antonio Torralba}\\
        
\textbf{Microsoft Research India} \hfill {\textit{2017 - 2019}}\\
\emph{Research Fellow in Machine Learning and Optimization Group}\\
        Advisors: \href{http://manikvarma.org}{Dr. Manik Varma} \& \href{http://prateekjain.org}{Dr. Prateek Jain}

\section{Publications}
\label{sec:pubs}
\textbf{\large{Preprints}}\hfill\begin{footnotesize}{* - equal contribution}\end{footnotesize}
\begin{etaremune}
\item \href{\homepage/pubs/wallingford20.pdf}{\textbf{In the Wild: From ML Models to Pragmatic ML Systems.}}\\
Matthew Wallingford, \textbf{Aditya Kusupati}*, Keivan Alizadeh-Vahid*, Aaron Walsman, \\Aniruddha Kembhavi and Ali Farhadi.\\
\emph{arXiv:2007.02519 (under review), 2020}.
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\textbf{\large{Conference Publications}}
\begin{etaremune}
\item \href{\homepage/pubs/saha20.pdf}{\textbf{RNNPool: Efficient Non-linear Pooling for RAM Constrained Inference.}}\\
Oindrila Saha, \textbf{Aditya Kusupati}, Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, Manik Varma and Prateek Jain.\\
\emph{Neural Information Processing Systems (\textbf{NeurIPS}), 2020}\\
\emph{WiCV workshop @ CVPR, 2020}.

\item \href{\homepage/pubs/kusupati20.pdf}{\textbf{Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity}}.\\
\textbf{Aditya Kusupati}, Vivek Ramanujan*, Raghav Somani*, Mitchell Wortsman*,\\ Prateek Jain, Sham Kakade and Ali Farhadi.\\
\emph{International Conference on Machine Learning (\textbf{ICML}), 2020} \textbf{(Virtual Talk)}.

\item \href{\homepage/pubs/prabhu20.pdf}{\textbf{Extreme Regression for Dynamic Search Advertising}}.\\
Yashoteja Prabhu, \textbf{Aditya Kusupati}, Nilesh Gupta and Manik Varma.\\
\emph{International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (\textbf{WSDM}), 2020} \textbf{(Long Oral)}.\\
\emph{Workshop on eXtreme Classification: Theory and Applications @ ICML, 2020}.

\item \href{\homepage/pubs/roy19.pdf}{\textbf{One Size Does Not Fit All: Multi-Scale, Cascaded RNNs for Radar Classification}}.\\
Dhrubojyoti Roy*, Sangeeta Srivatsava*, \textbf{Aditya Kusupati}, Pranshu Jain, Manik Varma and Anish Arora.\\
\emph{International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (\textbf{BuildSys}), 2019}.\\
\faTrophy \textcolor{black}{~\textbf{Best Paper Runner-Up Award}.}\\
\emph{Invited Paper in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (\textbf{TOSN}) - under review}.


\item \href{\homepage/pubs/kusupati18.pdf}{\textbf{FastGRNN: A Fast, Accurate, Stable and Tiny Kilobyte Sized Gated Recurrent Neural Network}}.\\
\textbf{Aditya Kusupati}, Manish Singh, Kush Bhatia, Ashish Kumar, Prateek Jain and Manik Varma.\\
\emph{Neural Information Processing Systems (\textbf{NeurIPS}), 2018}.
\end{etaremune}

\textbf{\large{Technical Reports}}
\begin{etaremune}[]
\item \href{\homepage/pubs/kusupati20a.pdf}{\textbf{Adapting Unstructured Sparsity Techniques for Structured Sparsity}}.\\
\textbf{Aditya Kusupati}.\\
\emph{Technical Report, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 2020}.
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\textbf{\large{Demos}}
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\item \href{\homepage/pubs/roy19-demo.pdf}{\textbf{Lightweight, Deep RNNs for Radar Classification}}.\\
Dhrubojyoti Roy*, Sangeeta Srivatsava*, Pranshu Jain, \textbf{Aditya Kusupati}, Manik Varma and Anish Arora.\\
\emph{International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (\textbf{BuildSys}), 2019}.
\end{etaremune}

\textbf{\large{Theses}}
\begin{etaremune}
\item \href{\homepage/pubs/kusupati17.pdf}{\textbf{Efficient Spatial Representation for Entity-Typing}}.\\
Anand Dhoot*, \textbf{Aditya Kusupati}* and Soumen Chakrabarti.\\
\textit{Undergraduate Thesis, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2016 - 17}.
\end{etaremune}

\section{Software}
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    \item \href{https://github.com/microsoft/EdgeML}{\textbf{EdgeML: Machine Learning for resource-constrained edge devices}}.\\
    Don Kurian Dennis, Yash Gaurkar, Sridhar Gopinath, Sachin Goyal, Chirag Gupta, Moksh Jain, Ashish Kumar, \textbf{Aditya Kusupati}, Chris Lovett, Shishir Girish Patil, Oindrila Saha and Harsha Vardhan Simhadri.\\
    \textit{Microsoft Research India, 2017 - present.}\\
     Stats as of August 2020: \ding{72} 884, ~\faCodeFork ~242, ~\faEye ~\textgreater175,000, ~\faClone ~\textgreater2,700.
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\section{Selected Awards and Honors}
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\item University of Washington graduate and CSE student conference grants to attend \textbf{WSDM '20}\hfill{\textit{2020}}
\item \textbf{Best Paper Runner-Up Award} at \textbf{BuildSys '19}\hfill{\textit{2019}}
\item \textbf{Best reviewer} (top 400) award for \textbf{NeurIPS '19}\hfill{\textit{2019}}
\item Young Researcher at Heidelberg Laureate Forum (\textbf{HLF '19}) with Romberg Grant \& MSR Travel Grant\hfill{\textit{2019}}
\item \textbf{Facebook AI Research International Scholarship} for DPhil at VGG, Oxford (2019 - 22, declined)\hfill{\textit{2019}}
\item IIT Bombay CSE \textbf{Teaching Assistant of the month} (Feb '16 and Feb '17) award\hfill{\textit{2016 - 2017}}
\item \textbf{All India Rank 44} in JEE Advanced (IIT-JEE) 2013 among 150,000 candidates \hfill{\textit{2013}}
\item  Gold Medal and rank \textbf{6 out of top 40} in India at OCSC for International Chemistry Olympiad '13 \hfill{\textit{2013}}
\item Awarded KVPY Fellowship from Government of India - All India Rank 22.\hfill{\textit{2011}}
\item Awarded NTSE Scholarship from Government of India. \hfill{\textit{2008}}
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\section{Talks}
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\item\textbf{Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity}
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    \item International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)\hfill{\textit{July 2020}}
    \item NVIDIA Research\hfill{\textit{July 2020}} 
    \item Deep Learning: Classics and Trends\hfill{\textit{June 2020}}
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\item\textbf{The Edge of Machine Learning}
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     \item University of Washington CSE Colloquium \&  Sensor Systems Seminar\hfill{\textit{October 2019}}
     \item VGG @ Oxford University, UK\hfill{\textit{April 2019}}
     \item Microsoft Research Redmond\hfill{\textit{March 2019}}
     \item Microsoft Research India\hfill{\textit{August 2018}}
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\item\textbf{The Extremes of Machine Learning}
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     \item Microsoft Bing Bellevue\hfill{\textit{March 2019}}
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\section{Professional Responsibilities}
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\item \emph{Reviewing:} IEEE TPAMI, NeurIPS ({2019 - present}), ICML ({2020 - present}), ICLR ({2021 - present}).

\item \emph{Mentorship}
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    \item Students
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            \item Manish Singh\\Bachelor's Thesis, IIT Delhi (w\textbackslash{} Dr. Manik Varma) $\to$ PhD Student @ MIT EECS\hfill\textit{2017 - 18}
            \item Sheshansh Agrawal\\Bachelor's Thesis, IIT Bombay (w\textbackslash{} Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti) $\to$ RSDE @ MSR India\hfill\textit{2018 - 19}
            \item Sahil Bhatia\\Research Fellow, MSR India (w\textbackslash{} Dr. Prateek Jain) $\to$ PhD Student @ UC Berkeley EECS \hfill\textit{2018 - 20}
            \item Oindrila Saha\\Research Fellow, MSR India (w\textbackslash{} Dr. Prateek Jain)\hfill\textit{2019 -}
            \item Sachin Goyal\\Research Fellow, MSR India (w\textbackslash{} Dr. Prateek Jain)\hfill\textit{2019 -}
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    \item New In ML 2019 session @ NeurIPS '19\hfill \textit{2019}
    \item MSR India Summer Workshop 2018: Machine Learning on Constrained Devices \hfill \textit{Summer 2018}
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\item \textit{Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship} - Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
  
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        \item Digital Logic Design - \textit{Prof. Supratik Chakraborty} - \textbf{TA of the month, Feb '17}\hfill{\textit{Spring 2017}}
        \item Software Systems Lab - \textit{Prof. Sharat Chandran} \hfill{\textit{Autumn 2016}}
        \item Digital Logic Design - \textit{Prof. Supratik Chakraborty} - \textbf{TA of the month, Feb '16}\hfill{\textit{Spring 2016}}
        \item Computer Programming and Utilisation - \textit{Prof. Varsha Apte}\hfill{\textit{Autumn 2015}}
        \item Computer Programming and Utilisation - \textit{Prof. Kavi Arya}\hfill{\textit{Spring 2015}}
           
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  \item \textit{Faculty Recruiting Liason} - Paul G. Allen School of CSE, University of Washington \hfill{\textit{2020 - 2021}}
  \item \textit{Department General Secretary} - Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay\hfill{\textit{2016 - 2017}}\\
\end{lonemidlist}


\section{Selected Research Projects}
\textbf{Exploration for Stronger Non-Linear Activation Functions}\hfill{\textit{Aug 2017 - Oct 2017}}\\
Advisor: \href{www.manikvarma.org}{Dr. Manik Varma}, \textit{Microsoft Research India} \\
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\item Explored the domain of activation functions systematically in the context of CNNs and discovered Swish in the same timeline as the ``Searching for Activation Functions'' \href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05941}{paper} with similar performance and analysis. 
\item Experimented with residual activation functions with 2 kernels to achieve 1\% gain on CIFAR-100 using DenseNet.\\
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\textbf{\href{\homepage/docs/CourseProjects/IITB/DGP.pdf}{Gloss: A Continuous Contextual Shape Descriptor}} \hfill {\textit{Mar 2017 - May 2017}}\\
Advisor: \href{https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~sidch/}{Prof. Siddhartha Chaudhuri} \textit{- Digital Geometry Processing, IIT Bombay}\\
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\item Proposed a continuous shape descriptor for 3D objects using the 3D context of the scene and environment around.
\item Solution based on self-supervised learning inspired from Word2vec to capture the structurally rich representations.
\item Learns global and local properties of the scene to help auto-completion, decorative suggestions for a given setting.
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