Akanksha Saran (Preferred)
Akanksha Saran
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)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning Group, Sony AI (sony.com)
2026 – Present
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