About
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Hello! I am Bhrij (“Bridge”) Patel. I am a third-year CS PhD student at the UMD - College Park. I am co-advised by Dr. Dinesh Manocha as part of the GAMMA lab and by Dr. Amrit Singh Bedi (UCF), focusing on policy optimization for RL and LLMs. Before my PhD, I graduated from Duke University (‘22) with a double major in CS and Math and a minor in Creative Writing. During my undergrad, I was advised by Dr. Cynthia Rudin in her Interpretable ML Lab.
My current research interests:
- Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
- Markovian Data and Mixing Time
- Optimization for AI Systems
- LLM for Planning