Atharva Sehgal
Visiting Student Researcher at Caltech
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAtharva Sehgal is a PhD student in Computer Science at UT Austin and an incoming postdoctoral researcher at Caltech, specializing in code generation algorithms that accelerate automated and collaborative scientific discovery. With nine years of experience spanning research assistantships and teaching roles at UIUC and UT Austin, he blends deep theoretical work with practical code-driven experimentation. He has worked closely with Swarat Chaudhuri and will collaborate with Yisong Yue, signaling a focus on probabilistic and program synthesis approaches to scientific inference. Beyond publishing and mentoring, Atharva’s trajectory reflects an uncommon commitment to translating automated code synthesis into tools that help scientists discover new facts, not just proofs.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (33)
genetic-algorithm10
evolutionary-algorithms10
datasets10
torchvision10
symbolic-regression10
computer-vision10
discrimination10
symbolic-computation9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
regression9
julia9
high-performance8
deep-learning8
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SIG-IR/a-mean-cookie
Feb 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 issues in 7 years
atharvas/atharvas.github.io
Jul 2019 - Apr 2025
Contributions:67 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
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