Rahul Jain

 Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence for Dynamic Systems: Reinforcement Learning, Online Learning, Statistical Learning Theory, and Intelligent Autonomy. 

Applications: Autonomous Robotic Systems, Smart Energy Systems, Digital Health, and Communication Systems

Prospective Students and Postdocs:

I am looking for smart and driven PhD students to work on AI and ML for dynamic systems. You can send me an email but please note that unless I see your application, I will be unable to make a decision. So, apply if you are interested. 

I may have a postdoc position available. If you are looking for a post-doc position, you can send me your CV and one of your best papers.

News

• Akhil Agnihotri wins the USC Capital One PhD Fellowship. Congrats!

• October 2024: New paper/poster in NeurIPS 2024

• September 2024: New ONR MURI Award on "New Games for New Agents"

• 2024 News: paper accepted in AISTATS'24

• Nathan Dahlin joins SUNY Albany as assistant professor. Congrats, Nate!

• 2023 News: recent papers in ICML, TMLR, UAI, NeurIPS Workshops, etc. See  Publications page.

• 2022 IEEE VIC SUMMIT: IEEE Simon Ramo Medal: Pravin P. Varaiya - Video (My PhD Advisor)

• Recent papers in NeurIPS 2021, ICML 2022, AISTATS 2022, UAI 2022, etc. on Publications page.

• Congrats to Mehdi Jafarnia on his upcoming appointment at DeepMind!

• Congrats to Harsha Honnappa, Group Alumni on achieving tenure at Purdue! Wonderful to hear of Harsha's two students - Prakash Chakraborty and Zachary Selk being placed in TT-assistant professor positions at Penn State and Queen's University. Congrats to all of you.

• Local and International News Coverage of the AAI Center Launch (Feb 2022)

• USC Viterbi School Announcement of the AAI Center Launch (Feb 2022)

• Honored to be the Founding Director of the industry-supported USC Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (AAI) 

• Congrats to Mehdi Jafarnia for successfully completing his PhD! He will join Uber Technologies. (Aug/Sep 2021)

• Congrats to Nathan Dahlin for successfully completing his PhD! He joins UIUC as a postdoc. (Aug/Sep 2021)

• Stochastic Systems & Learning Laboratory (S2L2) is now the AI for Dynamic Systems (AIDyS) Lab

• New NSF grant on learning methods for multi-agent systems  (joint with Prof. Ashutosh Nayyar, Sep 2020)

• Congrats to Hiteshi Sharma who graduates with PhD and joins Microsoft AI division (May 2020)

• New Science of AI project funded by ONR (joint with Prof. Nuzzo, October 2019)

• The new USC autoDRIVE Lab is launched! We are looking for enthusiastic student researchers!

• New NSF grant on formal reinforcement learning methods (joint with Prof. Pierluigi Nuzzo, April 2019)

• William Haskell (former postdoc) joins Purdue Business School as Assistant Professor. Congratulations! (July 2019) 

• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems

• New NSF grant on new approach to analysis and design of algorithms for stochastic control and optimization (October 2018)

• New NSF grant on online learning and control (August 2018)

•  US Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2017-2020 and Fulbright Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (July 2018)

•  Simons Institute Research Fellow, Spring 2018

•  Dileep Kalathil joins Texas A&M ECE department as assistant professor from Fall 2017. Congratulations!

•  Wenyuan Tang joins North Carolina State ECE department as assistant professor from Fall 2017. Congratulations!

•  Harsha Honnappa wins the Lajos Takacs Best Dissertation in Queueing Theory Award 2016. Congrats!

•  Naumaan Nayyar successfully defended his PhD dissertation on “Learning and Control in Decentralized Stochastic Systems”. He joins IBM Watson Research Center in Fall 2015. Congratulations! 

•  Wenyuan Tang has graduated with a PhD dissertation on “The SmartGrid Network: Pricing, Markets and Incentives”. He joins UC Berkeley and Stanford as a joint postdoc in Fall 2015.

•  Congratulations to Abhishek Gupta (postdoc 2014-15)! He joins Ohio State ECE department as assistant professor from Fall 2015 

•  Dileep Kalathil has graduated with a PhD dissertation on “Empirical Methods in Control and Optimization”. He has joined UC Berkeley as postdoc from October 2014

•  Harsha Honnappa has graduated with a PhD dissertation on “Strategic and Transitory Models of Queueing Systems”. He joins Purdue University as assistant professor in January 2015 

•  William Haskell (postdoc 2013-14) joins National University of Singapore as assistant professor from August 2014

•  Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering, March 2014 onwards

•  Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, April 2013 onwards

•  Best Student Paper award (with Srinivas Yerramalli and Ubli Mitra), Int. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2012 

•  Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2012)

•  Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Economics of Communications and Networks, December 2012.

•  2011 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics & Game Theory (NEGT),Caltech, November 3 & 4, 2011 (co-organizer)

•  International Conf. on Game Theory in Networks (Game-Nets), April 16-18, 2011, Shanghai  (TPC Co-Chair)

•  NSF CAREER Award, 2010

•  IBM Faculty Award, 2010

•  Best Paper Award at The ValueTools Conference 2009, Pisa, Italy, October 20-22, 2009

•  James H. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Award, 2009