Ashwin Pananjady Martin

Ashwin Pananjady Martin is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech with a joint appointment between the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on high-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, reinforcement learning, and information theory, with applications in data science and signal processing. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's EECS department and a B.Tech. from IIT Madras.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
  • B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

His research emphasizes statistical and computational challenges in high-dimensional data with geometric structures. Notable awards include the Lawrence D. Brown award and David J. Sakrison Prize for dissertation work, alongside teaching and industry fellowships.

• Awards:
  • Inaugural Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. student award
  • David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize
  • Swiss Re Research Fellowship

Prior industrial experience includes research at Amazon and Microsoft during his Ph.D. No specific grants or advising details are provided in the text.