Akanksha Saran (Preferred)
Akanksha Saran
Researcher, Multimodal Content Experiences Lab, Adobe Research
Researcher, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning Group, Sony AI
Researcher, Reinforcement Learning Group, Sony AI
Joined
February 2020
Names
Emails
****@utexas.edu (Confirmed)
****@cs.utexas.edu (Confirmed)
****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)
****@sony.com (Confirmed)
****@adobe.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
Multimodal Content Experiences Lab, Adobe Research (adobe.com)
2026 – Present
Researcher
Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning Group, Sony AI (sony.com)
2026 – 2026
Researcher
Reinforcement Learning Group, Sony AI (sony.com)
2023 – 2026
Postdoc
Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning Group, Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)
2021 – 2023
PhD student
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (utexas.edu)
2015 – 2021
MS student
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
2013 – 2014
Undergrad student
Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India (iitj.ac.in)
2009 – 2013
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
world models
2024 – Present
vision language action models
2024 – Present
large language models
2023 – Present
deep learning
2017 – Present
reinforcement learning
2015 – Present
interactive machine learning
2013 – Present
Publications
Co-Authors
- Aaquib Tabrez
- Akshay Krishnamurthy
- Alex Lamb
- Andrea Thomaz
- Ann Paradiso
- Anna-Lisa Vollmer
- Antonio Andriella
- Bo Liu
- Branka Lakic
- Bryon Tjanaka
- Cheng Tan
- Cyril Zhang
- Damien Teney
- Dana H. Ballard
- Daniel H Grollman
- Daniel Seita
- Danielle Bragg
- Dipendra Misra
- Dylan J Foster
- Dylan J. Foster
- Elaine Schaertl Short
- Emmanuel Senft
- Erdem Biyik
- Freddie Liang
- Harshit Sikchi