Sahil Sidheekh


Ph.D. Student,
The University of Texas at Dallas.


ECSS 3.214, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, UTD

I am an AI researcher trying to make machines capable of representing knowledge while reasoning about uncertainties in this increasingly complex world.

Presently, I am a 1st year Ph.D. student working at the StARLing Lab headed by Dr. Sriraam Natarajan. I work broadly in the domains of Neuro-Symbolic AI, Probabilistic Generative Models and Meta-learning. I also explore novel applications that can benefit from these reasearch areas, especially problems that can impact society for the better. Previously, I completed by undergraduate studies majoring in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Ropar, where I was fortunate to be a part of the LSAIML team headed by Dr. Narayanan C. K.

I am passionate about building robust and efficient systems that can reason probabilistically and make interpretable decisions. I enjoy connecting dots and innovating ideas that span multiple disciplines. I have a strong academic background in engineering and machine learning. If you would like to collaborate, please feel free to reach out through email :mailbox_closed:.


news

Aug 22, 2022 I have joined the StARLing Lab at UT Dallas as a Ph.D. Student. Excited !:sparkles:
May 16, 2022 Our work VQ-Flows: Vector Quantized Local Normalizing Flows has been accepted to UAI 2022 :sparkles:
Jan 19, 2022 Our work Machine Learning Methods Trained on Simple Models can Anticipate Crtitical Transitions in Complex Systems has been accepted to the Royal Society Open Science Journal. :sparkles:
Oct 24, 2021 Our work Task Attended Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Learning has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Metalearning :sparkles:
May 10, 2021 Our work On Characterizing GAN Convergence Through Proximal Duality Gap has been accepted to ICML 2021 :sparkles:

selected publications

  1. On Characterizing GAN Convergence Through Proximal Duality Gap
    Sidheekh, Sahil, Aimen, Aroof, and C.Krishnan, Narayanan
    In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2021
  2. Task Attended Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Learning
    Aimen, Aroof, Sidheekh, Sahil, Ladrecha, Bharat, and Krishnan, Narayanan Chatapuram
    In Fifth Workshop on Meta-Learning at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021
  3. Stress Testing of Meta-learning Approaches for Few-shot Learning
    Aimen, Aroof, Sidheekh, Sahil, Madan, Vineet, and Krishnan, Narayanan C.
    In AAAI Workshop on Metalearning and Co-Hosted Challenge 2021
  4. On Duality Gap as a Measure for Monitoring GAN Training
    Sidheekh, Sahil, Aimen, Aroof, Madan, Vineet, and Krishnan, Narayanan C.
    In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2021