I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science in Columbia University. I am a member of the Columbia Machine Learning Laboratory directed by Dr. Tony Jebara . Prior to joining Columbia, I obtained a master of engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. My area of interest is Machine Learning in general. In particular, my interests include large margin methods, convex optimization, semi-supervised learning, multi-task learning, large scale machine learning and learning theory.