Effective 05/20/2024 NSF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OMB-3145-0279

IDENTIFYING INFORMATION:
NAME: Aggarwal, Vaneet
POSITION TITLE: University Faculty Scholar and Professor
PRIMARY ORGANIZATION AND LOCATION: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana,
United States
Professional Preparation:
ORGANIZATION AND LOCATION DEGREE RECEIPT DATE FIELD OF STUDY
(if applicable)
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Electrical Engineering,
PHD 07/2010
United States Computer Science
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey,
MA 05/2007 Electrical Engineering
United States
I.I.T. Kanpur, Kanpur, Not Applicable, N/A,
BOTH 05/2005 Electrical Engineering
India
Appointments and Positions
2024 - present University Faculty Scholar and Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana, United States
2022 - present Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
2022 - 2023 Visiting Professor, KAUST, Thuwal, Not Applicable, N/A, Saudi Arabia
2022 - 2023 Adjunct Professor, IIIT Delhi, Delhi, Not Applicable, N/A, India
2019 - 2022 Associate Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
2018 - 2019 VAJRA Distinguished Adjunct Professor, IISc Bangalore, Bangalore, Not
Applicable, N/A, India
2015 - 2019 Assistant Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
2013 - 2014 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, NY, New York, United States
2010 - 2014 Senior Member of Technical Staff Research, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park,
New Jersey, United States
Products
Products Most Closely Related to the Proposed Project
1. Chen J, Lan T, Aggarwal V. Hierarchical Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning. IEEE
Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst. 2023 Sep 13;PP PubMed PMID: 37703157.
2. Chen J, Tamboli D, Lan T, Aggarwal V. Multi-task hierarchical adversarial inverse
reinforcement learning. International Conference on Machine Learning. 2023; :4895-4920. issn:
2640-3498
3. Gaur M, Aggarwal V, Agarwal M. On the global convergence of fitted Q-iteration with two-
layer neural network parametrization. International Conference on Machine Learning. 2023;
:11013-11049. issn: 2640-3498
4. Malusare A, Aggarwal V. Improving Molecule Generation and Drug Discovery with a
Knowledge-enhanced Generative Model. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.08790. 2024.

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 5. Malusare A, Kothandaraman H, Tamboli D, Lanman N, Aggarwal V. Understanding the Natural
Language of DNA using Encoder-Decoder Foundation Models with Byte-level Precision. arXiv
preprint arXiv:2311.02333. 2023.
Other Significant Products, Whether or Not Related to the Proposed Project
1. Moradipari A, Pedramfar M, Shokrian Zini M, Aggarwal V. Improved Bayesian Regret Bounds
for Thompson Sampling in Reinforcement Learning. Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems. 2024; 36.
2. Bai Q, Bedi A, Agarwal M, Koppel A, Aggarwal V. Achieving zero constraint violation for
concave utility constrained reinforcement learning via primal-dual approach. Journal of
Artificial Intelligence Research. 2023; 78:975-1016. issn: 1076-9757
3. Chen J, Aggarwal V, Lan T. A Unified Algorithm Framework for Unsupervised Discovery of
Skills based on Determinantal Point Process. Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems. 2024; 36.
4. Chen J, Chen J, Lan T, Aggarwal V. Scalable multi-agent covering option discovery based on
kronecker graphs. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2022; 35:30406-30418.
5. Zhou H, Lan T, Aggarwal V. PAC: Assisted Value Factorisation with Counterfactual
Predictions in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. NeurIPS. 2022 December.
Certification:

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6605.

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Misrepresentations and/or omissions may be subject to prosecution and liability pursuant to, but not
limited to, 18 U.S.C. §§ 287, 1001, 1031 and 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 and 3802.

Certified by Aggarwal, Vaneet in SciENcv on 2024-06-23 06:03:24

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