Aviral Kumar
Office
7125 Gates and Hillman Centers
aviralku@andrew.cmu.edu
Department
Computer Science Department
Administrative Support
Research Areas
Research Interests
Machine Learning
Robotics
Advisees
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.