Abi Kothapalli

Hello there 👋. I am a first-year PhD student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My current research interests lie broadly in architecture design, generative modeling, optimization, and safety/robustness.

Previously, I spent four years at Vanderbilt University studying computer science and pure mathematics, earning my B.S. and M.S. degrees. At Vanderbilt, I worked with Prof. Soheil Kolouri in the Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies (MINT) Lab, conducting research in computational optimal transport and its applications to machine learning. I also had the pleasure of working with Prof. Akram Aldroubi, Prof. Daniel Moyer, Prof. Xenofon Koutsoukos, and Prof. Mudassir Shabbir throughout my time at Vanderbilt.