Varul Srivastava

Varul Srivastava

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About Me

I am an AI Researcher interested in Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent System and post-training techniques for Generative Models. I did my B. Tech. (honours) and M. S. by research in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad. Here, I worked at the Machine Learning Lab under the supervision of Prof. Sujit Gujar on Game Theory and Mechanism design with applications to multi-agent systems.

Experience

Google DeepMind India

Pre-Doctoral Researcher, Foundational Research

I am part of the AQUA (Agents) team at the Foundational Research Unit @ Google DeepMind, India. I primarily work with Aravindan Raghuveer on improving Reasoning capabilities of LLMs (focusing on Gemini).

Oracle

Applications Developer

I worked as an Applications Developer at Oracle in the Supply Chain Management (Fusion) team. I also worked on designing Agentic workflows for Value-Chain Planning products.

Microsoft Research

Research Intern

I worked as a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, India. I worked with Rahul Sharma to work on LLM based superoptimizers for compilers, working over arbitrary optimization window.

Game Theory

Machine Learning Intern

I worked as a Machine Learning Intern at Game Theory, India. I was responsible to design and implement a elo-based learnable rating and matching system for their player-to-player matching and evaluation platform.

Education

IIIT Hyderabad

B. Tech. (Hons.) + M. S. by Research in Computer Science

St. Joseph's College

Senior Secondary (Class 12), ISC Board

Publications

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Highlights

Background

B.Tech + M.S. (Research) in Computer Science, IIIT Hyderabad. Gold Medalist (CGPA 9.65). 7+ publications in A/A* venues. 1 US patent filed.

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