Etash Guha
Researcher
I research how to use Machine Learning Theory for AI Safety. Specifically, I develop and analyze algorithms to ensure Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning can be used in High Stakes Environments. I investigate properties such as Robustness, Uncertainty, Bias, Generalization, and more.
Education
Aug. 2018 — May 2022
B.S. in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Overall GPA: 3.97/4.00, Threads in Intelligence and Theory
Industry Research Experience
Nov 2023 - Current
SambaNova Systems, Palo Alto, California
Researcher, NLP
Working on the Reliability of Large Language Models
May 2021 — May 2023
SambaNova Systems, Palo Alto, California
Research Intern, ML for PnR
Developed Learned Cost Model using Graph Neural Networks to predict quality of chip placement, beating several man-made heuristics
May 2020 — Aug. 2021
FORT LP, New York City, New York
Quantitative Research Intern, Transaction Analysis Group
Implemented Pipeline for analyzing slippage data and Neural Net strategy for Price prediction with NLP data
May 2019 - Aug. 2019
SAS, Cary, North Carolina
Software Engineering Intern, SAS Model Manager
Integrated Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers NLP Model into SAS Products using PyTorch
Jan. 2019 - May 2019
Parmonic, Atlanta, Georgia
Using Python with libraries such as SciKit and OpenCV for Data and Video Analysis
Academic Research Experience
May 2023 - May 2024
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Advisor:
Jacob Abernethy,
Xiaoming Huo
Developped Generalization Bounds for Magnitude-Based Pruning. Proved that Sparse and Wide Neural Networks Forget Less. Developped an No-Regret Framework to solve Robust Markov Decision Processes.
Feb. 2022 - May 2023
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Advisor:
Jacob Abernethy,
Vidya Muthukumar,
Ashwin Pananjady
Working on designing general class of frameworks for two player Fenchel Games to model perceptron algorithms. Tested a Hebbian Plasticity based learning system and analyzed its computational capacity. Analyzing Efficient Algorithm for generating Conformal Prediction Sets. Developed an Inverse Reinforcement Learning algorithm for Linear Stochastic Bandits. Developed a learned methodology to efficiently and accurately generate solutions to NP-Hard problems.
Aug. 2019 - May 2019
IVALab, Atlanta, Georgia
Undergraduate Research Assistant, IVALab
Advisor:
Patricio Vela
Developed a more efficient autonomous exploration method for robots with 9.8% increased accuracy over standard Frontier Based Exploration using ROS and C++
Honors and Awards
2018-2022
Stamps President's Scholarship at Georgia Tech
Full-Ride Merit Scholarship given to 40 Freshman at Georgia Tech
2023
Fatima Fellowship
An International Mentorship Program for Aspiring Researchers in Computer Science given to 40 students
2018-2022
Faculty List
Awarded to students with 4.0 GPA
Publications
Conference
C9
Etash Guha,
Vihan Lakshman
Under Review at AISTATS 2024.
C8
Etash Guha,
Shlok Natarajan,
Thomas Möllenhoff,
Emtiyaz Khan,
Eugene Ndiaye
Accepted at Regulatable ML Workshop @ NeurIPS2023; Under Review at ICLR 2024.
C7
Etash Guha,
Prasanjit Dubey,
Xiaoming Huo
Under Review at ICLR 2024.
C6
Etash Guha,
Jason D. Lee
Under Review at ICLR 2024.
C5
Etash Guha,
Jim James,
Krishna Acharya,
Ashwin Pananjady,
Vidya Muthukumar
Under Review at ALT 2024.
C4
Etash Guha,
Eugene Ndiaye,
Xiaoming Huo
International Conference of Machine Learning 2023.
C3
Guanghui Wang,
Rafael Hanashiro,
Etash Guha,
Jacob Abernethy
International Conference of Learning Representations 2023.
C2
Haoran Sun,
Etash Guha,
Hanjun Dai,
Le Song
International OPT Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning @ NeurIPS 2023.
C1
Etash Guha,
Tianxiao Jiang,
Andrew Deng,
Muthu Annamalai,
Jian Zhang
Design Automation Conference (poster) 2022.
Poster
P1
Etash Guha,
Patricio Vela
National Conference of Undergraduate Research 2019.
Service
Reviewer
International Conference of Learning Represenations
(ICLR)
2024
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
(NeurIPS)
2023
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
(AISTATS)
2024
Optimization for Machine Learning Workshop @ NeurIPS
(OPT)
2023
Duality Principles for Modern Machine Learning Workshop @ ICML
(DP4ML)
2023