Aviral Kumar

Aviral Kumar is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, jointly appointed in CSD and MLD. He finished his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in September 2023, where he was awarded the CV Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, given to one student at UC Berkeley for outstanding contributions to a new research area in CS, and also received an Apple Ph.D. fellowship and a Facebook Ph.D. fellowship.

Kumar's research focuses on reinforcement learning and decision-making, in particular on offline reinforcement learning, scaling up reinforcement learning, and more recently on the intersection of reinforcement learning and foundation models.