Rishav

Hello! My name is Rishav. I am currently a graduate student at Mila. I am working on developing robust representations for reinforcement learning. I am an engineer at heart and nothing excites me more than scale.

Before this, I co-founded Offside where I developed the entire tech, scaled the product to 100k users and raised $300k from prominent VCs and angels. Unfortunately though, our intuition failed and the product was not able to cement a place in the market.

Even before that I spent ~2 amazing years in Kasierslautern, Germany working at DFKI in the augmented vision department as a Research Engineer where I developed real-time algorithms for precision farming.

I graduated from BITS Pilani, India with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science in 2020.

My larger goal is to develop robust, scalable and reliable machine learning systems (currently exploring DeepRL & robotics systems). I often write blogs on my learnings in various projects and about life in general.

I believe in Slow Science.

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Random
While I am not working, I like to read about historical events, specially related to ancient civilizations or listen to music some old classic rock. I am a fan of historical dramas, trekking and strength training. Here's a TODO.

Contact
Email: mail(.)rishav9@gmail(.)com
Twitter: Rishav's Twitter




Latest

[1 Jan 2024] Back to doing Machine Learning at Mila as a graduate student, want to spend sometime creating new knowledge before stepping my foot again in the industry.

[31 Dec 2023] End of my journey at Offside, we raised $300k, scaled to 100k users but could not cement ourselves in the market. The learnings will stay with me forever! I am proud and Happy.

[1 Aug 2022] Left DFKI, founded Offside - a one stop solution for cricket fanatics.

[8 Dec 2021] My implementation of GANVO is now publically available. Find it here

[7 Oct 2021] My implementation of Cross Spectral Stereo Matching by learning to synthesize is now publically available. Find it here.

[15 May 2021] New journey: Started working at DFKI as a research engineer.

[01 Aug 2020] Started working at Wells Fargo as a software engineer.

[20 July 2020] Graduated with a B.Eng. in computer science from BITS, Pilani, India!

[30 Jun 2020] Paper accepted at IROS-2020! Congrats to all my co-authors. [Arxiv] [Code]

[20 Jun 2020] Paper accepted at ICPR-2020! Congrats to all my co-authors. [Arxiv]

[10 Jan 2020] Started working on Visual Commonsense Reasoning

[17 Dec 2019] Wrapped my thesis at DFKI, heading back home. [PPT]

[2 Jun 2019] Started working at DFKI for my bachelor thesis.