Portrait of Akshay Krishnamurthy

Akshay Krishnamurthy

Principal Researcher

About

I am a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, New York City (opens in new tab). Previously, I spent two years as an assistant professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, NYC. Before that, I completed my PhD in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Aarti Singh (opens in new tab). I received my undergraduate degree in EECS at UC Berkeley.

My research interests are in machine learning and statistics. I am most excited about interactive learning, or learning settings that involve feedback-driven data collection. My recent interests revolve around decision making problems with limited feedback, including contextual bandits and reinforcement learning.

For a list of preprints and papers, please visit my personal webpage (opens in new tab).