Computer Science and Automation, IISc

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Arkaprava Basu on winning the "Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar" for the year 2025. 🏆
He is the sole recipient this year in the Engineering Sciences category.

Does DQN Learn?” (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.13617) by Aditya Gopalan () and Gugan Thoppe () has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. In practice, DQN often fails to identify good policies—this work provides a rigorous explanation for why.

Joint work of Siddharth Barman and Paritosh Verma on “Fair Division Beyond Monotone Valuations” has been accepted at SODA 2026:

Fair Division Beyond Monotone Valuations This paper studies fair division of divisible and indivisible items among agents whose cardinal preferences are not necessarily monotone. We establish the existence of fair divisions and develop approximation algorithms to compute them. We address two complementary valuation classes, subadditive and...