Abhinav Kumar

I am a Ph.D. Candidate at MIT advised by Prof. Caroline Uhler. I broadly work on problems in Causality with applications in Biology.

Before joining MIT, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research, India advised by Dr. Amit Sharma. I graduated from BITS, Pilani (Hyderabad Campus) in 2020 with a Master's in Physics and Bachelor's in Computer Science. During my Master's thesis, I worked with Dr. Gaurav Sinha who introduced me to the field of Causality, and ever since, we have been good friends.

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Research Interests

I am broadly interested in the discovering the mechanisms underlying a complex system. These systems could be physical, such as biological systems, or algorithmic, such as ML models. I like to develop theoretical frameworks and methods to understand these systems and apply them to real-world applications. My current toolbox includes various hammers from Causality, such as Causal Discovery, Causal Representation Learning, and Causal Feature Learning.