Balaraman Ravindran
Full Professor, Data Science and AI, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Joined
November 2016
Names
Balaraman Ravindran (Preferred)
Emails
****@cse.iitm.ac.in (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@google.com (Confirmed)
****@dsai.iitm.ac.in (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Full Professor
Data Science and AI, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (iitm.ac.in)
2018 – Present
Visiting Researcher
NA, Google (google.com)
2020 – 2021
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engg, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (iitm.ac.in)
2009 – 2018
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engg. , Indian Institute of Technology Madras (iitm.ac.in)
2004 – 2009
PhD student
Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (umass.edu)
1996 – 2004
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coauthor
Srinivasan Parthasarathy
2007 – 2020
Coauthor
Sriraam Natarajan
2005 – 2020
Expertise
Reinfrocement Learning
Present
Social Network Analysis
Present
Publications
Can Agents Learn Safe Behavior From Non-Preferred Demonstrations?
Om Vivek Mahajan, Dhiran Venula, Shrinidi Kuppurajan, Returaj Burnwal, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt, Balaraman Ravindran- ICRA 2026 Workshop RL4IL Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SWAN: Sparse Winnowed Attention for Reduced Inference Memory via Decompression-Free KV-Cache Compression
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Interpretable Models Using Uncertainty Oracles
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
LongSurv: Bridging Short-Term Data and Causal Priors for Longitudinal Survival Modeling
Shivaram V, Dr Anuva Kapoor, Kangan Maria, Preetha Balasubramanian, Bhanu Duggal, Mona Duggal, Balaraman Ravindran, Lakshmi Subramanian- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop CauScien Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Language Expansion In Text-Based Games
- NIPS Deep RL Workshop 2016
- Readers: Everyone
TOMBoost: a topic modeling based boosting approach for learning with class imbalance
- Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Co-Authors
- Aadithya V. Karthik
- Aakanksha Gagrani
- Aakash Srinivasan
- Abhinav Garlapati
- Abhishek Ghose
- Abhishek Naik
- Abhishek Narwekar
- Abhishek Sarkar
- Abhishek Sharma
- Abhor Gupta
- Adam Zychowski
- Addwiteey Chrungoo
- Adithya Ramesh
- Aditi Jain
- Aditi Raghunathan
- Aditya Mate
- Aditya Phalnikar
- Aditya Verma
- Ahmed A. Moustafa
- Akash Jain
- Akash Kumar Mohankumar
- Akash Reddy
- Akhil Sathuluri
- Ambreesh Parthasarathy
- Ameen Jauhar
