Saptarshi Mandal
Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSaptarshi Mandal is a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC, focused on sequential decision-making and reinforcement learning under Prof. R. Srikant, with a dual BTech–MTech from IIT Kharagpur and a CS minor. He blends academic rigor with applied impact, having worked as a student researcher at Google Research on AI for Social Good to model rural healthcare outreach using restless multi-armed bandits—a project that led to an AAMAS 2025 full paper. As a research assistant at UIUC’s Coordinated Science Lab and a teaching assistant for graduate MDP and RL courses, he teaches and builds theory-driven solutions for large-scale interventions. His background includes internships at NVIDIA and IISc, reflecting a mix of hardware-aware design and communication networks experience that informs his approach to data-driven policy design.
15 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDual Degree( B Tech- M Tech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering(Minor in CS), Dual Degree( B Tech- M Tech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering(Minor in CS) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (8)
computer-algebra10
pure-python10
science10
math10
python10
algebra10
computer-algebra-system10
sympy2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
trishume/sympy-wiki-with-svn
Mar 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:83 commits in 7 months
sympy/sympy
Apr 2011 - Apr 2012
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Contributions:192 commits in 1 year
mathpythonsciencecomputer-algebra-systemalgebra
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