CV

General Information

Full Name Purva Pruthi
Email 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.