Aditya Grover

Aditya Grover is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the College of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on uniting deep generative models, representation learning, and reinforcement learning to advance scientific reasoning.

Key research areas include:

• Development of AI systems with limited supervision
• Sequential decision making in AI
• Generative AI applications
• Sustainability in computer science via the ML4Climate initiative

He has received prestigious awards such as the Computers and Thought Award (2025), NSF CAREER Award (2024), and Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship (2024), alongside industry accolades from Amazon, Samsung, Google, and Meta.

Advising and Grants:

• NSF CAREER Award: Five-year $500,000 grant for generative AI research
• Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellowship: Two-year $300,000 grant for interdisciplinary AI aligned with human values

He leads the Machine Intelligence group at UCLA, co-founded the generative AI company Inception, and explores parallelizable large language models optimized for quality, speed, and cost.