Kush Bhatia

I am a graduate student in the Computer Science department at UC Berkeley where I am fortunate to be advised by Peter Bartlett and Anca Dragan. I am interested in problems at the intersection of statistics, optimization and machine learning. Before coming to Berkeley, I spent 2 wonderful years working at Microsoft Research Bangalore with Prateek Jain and Manik Varma. I completed my undergraduate studies at IIT Delhi with a major in Computer Science where I was advised by Parag Singla for my undergraduate thesis. Email: first_name [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu (where first_name = kush)

Publications

Refereed Conference Publications

• Gen-Oja: A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Streaming Generalized Eigenvector Computation
  Kush Bhatia*, Aldo Pacchiano*, Nicolas Flammarion, Peter L. Bartlett, and Michael I. Jordan,
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2018

• FastGRNN: A Fast, Accurate, Stable and Tiny Kilobyte Sized Gated Recurrent Neural Network
  Aditya Kusupati, Manish Singh, Kush Bhatia, Ashish Kumar, Prateek Jain, and Manik Varma,
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2018
  [Code]

• Establishing Appropriate Trust Via Critical States.
  Sandy Huang, Kush Bhatia, Pieter Abbeel, and Anca D. Dragan,
  International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018

• Consistent Robust Regression
  Kush Bhatia, Prateek Jain, Parameswaran Kamalaruban, and Purushottam Kar,
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2017
  [pdf] [Short Video]

• Robust Regression via Hard Thresholding
  Kush Bhatia, Prateek Jain, and Purushottam Kar,
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015
  [pdf]

• Sparse Local Embeddings for Extreme Multi-label Classification
  Kush Bhatia, Himanshu Jain, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma, and Prateek Jain,
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015
  [pdf] [Code] [Extreme Classification Repository]

Refereed Journal Publications

• Lazy Generic Cuts
  Dinesh Khandelwal, Kush Bhatia, Chetan Arora and Parag Singla,
  Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2016
  [pdf]

Collaborators

I have been fortunate to have collaborated with people who are awesome researchers and amazing to interact with. In alphabetical order, they are:
Pieter Abbeel, Chetan Arora, Peter L. Bartlett, Anca Dragan, Sandy Huang, Himanshu Jain, Prateek Jain, Michael I. Jordan, Parameswaran Kamalaruban, Purushottam Kar, Dinesh Khandelwal, Ashish Kumar, Aditya Kusupati, Aldo Pacchiano Manish Singh, Parag Singla, Manik Varma