Summary
Dhruv Sreenivas is a gradient-driven researcher and engineer with a decade of experience focused on deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and generative modeling. Currently a graduate researcher at Mila and a PhD student in computer science, he has driven sample-efficient RL/IL research and contributed to projects bridging diffusion models and control. His industry internships at Cohere, Apple, and AWS involved RL for foundation-model agents, multistep reasoning for LLMs, and applied ML systems work, giving him a rare blend of theoretical depth and production-oriented experience. At Cornell he combined research and teaching across RL, adversarial imitation learning, and self-predictive methods for image-based control, and has worked with leaders like Doina Precup, Yoshua Bengio, and Pablo Samuel Castro. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between mathematical rigor and practical system-building, often surfacing simple representations that make complex control and generative tasks tractable.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Concord Academy
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Tamil, Spanish