CV
General Information
Full Name | Purva Pruthi |
ppruthi@cs.umass.edu | |
Website | https://purvapruthi.github.io/ |
Education
- 2018-2025 (expected)
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Advisor - Prof. David Jensen
- Research Areas - Causal Inference, Probabilistic Machine Learning
- 2018-2021
MS in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- GPA - 3.953/4.0
- 2011-2015
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- GPA - 8.48/10.0
Research Experience
- 2018-Present
Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Advisor - Prof. David Jensen
- Designing causal models of complex systems and developing algorithms for causal inference.
- Sep 2021- May 2022
Ph.D. AI Resident
Google X, The Moonshot Factory
- Advisor - Hongxu Ma, Brad Zamft
- Applied practical machine learning modeling and causal inference to solve challenging real-world problems as part of X’s moonshot projects.
- Summer 2019
Summer Research Intern
Amazon Research Center, Cambridge, UK
- Advisor - Dr. Javier Gonzalez
- Designed a transfer-learning framework for different games with visually changing features but same underlying causal dynamics model.