Ph.D. 2025
Now: Meta
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2025
- M.Tech., Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2013
- B.S., Electronics and Telecommunication, Army Institute of Technology, Pune, India, 2007
Ashutosh was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, co-advised by Dr. Soumik Sarkar and Dr. Jin Tian. His research focused on adversarial robustness: developing methods that make deep learning models empirically robust while also providing avenues for their theoretical certification. His dissertation was titled "Toward Reliable AI: Practical and Certified Defenses for Adversarially Robust Vision Systems."
He graduated from the SCS Lab in December 2025 and is currently working at Meta.
Research interests: Adversarial robustness, certified defenses, robust vision systems
Publications with the lab (2)
- TabQL: In-Context Q-Learning with Tabular Foundation Models — arXiv (2026)
- Fast Certification of Vision-Language Models Using Incremental Randomized Smoothing — 2024 IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) (2024)
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