Soumya Basu

About Me I am an SWE in Google, Mountain View. My research interest lies in the theory and practice of Online Learning for enhancing complex systems. I am excited to utilize my expertise in online learning to improve performance across Google's large array of products! Before joining Google, I obtained my Ph.D. in ECE, UT Austin under the supervision of Prof. Evdokia Nikolova and Prof. Sanjay Shakkottai. I was a member of the Wireless Networking and Communication Group (WNCG), UT Austin. Earlier I finished my undergraduate and Master's studies, from IIT Kharagpur, India.

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014 - 2020

  • Advisors: Prof. Evdokia Nikolova and Prof. Sanjay Shakkottai

• M.Tech., Telecommunication Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2009 - 2014

  • Advisor: Prof. Goutam Das

• B.Tech., Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2009 - 2014

  • Advisor: Prof. Goutam Das

News

• Papers on 'Combinatorial Blocking Bandits with Stochastic Delay' and 'Beyond log²(T) Regret for Decentralized Bandits in Matching Markets' accepted for ICML 2021

• Papers on 'ThomCoboS: Thompson Sampling-based MmWaveCodebook Selection in Rapidly-Varying Channels' accepted for Mobihoc 2021

• Papers on 'Contextual Blocking Bandits' and 'Dominate or Delete: Decentralized Competing Bandits in Serial Dictatorship' accepted for AISTATS 2021