Apurva Gandhi

Hi! I am a first year Computer Science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University where I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Graham Neubig.

Some areas that I am currently excited about include:

• Agents (LLM, Multimodal, Embodied)
• Reinforcement Learning
• Program Synthesis
• Reasoning and Abstraction
• Inference-time algorithms

Prior to starting a PhD at CMU, I spent four wonderful years at Microsoft as a Senior Machine Learning Scientist, where I helped design and ship many of the foundational pieces for Microsoft & M365 Copilots, including the original prototype for Copilots in Microsoft Office.

Before that, I graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Computer Engineering & Computer Science and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, where I was extremely fortunate to have Prof. Bart Kosko as a mentor.

If you share research interests, are considering a PhD after time in industry, or think I could otherwise be of help, feel free to reach out!

Note: This website is still under construction. More to come soon :)