Academic Papers

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Machine Learning and Statistics

Optimal Transfer Learning for Missing Not-at-Random Matrix Completion
Akhil Jalan, Yassir Jedra, Arya Mazumdar, Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee, Purnmarita Sarkar
Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025.
[Paper]

Transfer Learning for Latent Variable Network Models
Akhil Jalan, Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee, Arya Mazumdar, Purnmarita Sarkar
38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024.
[arXiv]

Strategic Negotiations in Endogenous Network Formation
Akhil Jalan, Deepayan Chakrabarti.
Under Review, 2024.
[arXiv]

Bioprocessing

Model-Based Control in Cultivated Meat Cell Cultures through Raman Spectroscopy
Akhil Jalan, Kai Hoeffner.
International Foundation for Process Analytical Chemistry (IFPAC) Global 2024.
[Conference Talk]

Algorithms

Extractors for Images of Varieties
Zeyu Guo, Ben Lee Volk, Akhil Jalan, David Zuckerman.
55th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) 2023.
[Paper]

Near-Optimal Cayley Expanders for Abelian Groups
Akhil Jalan, Dana Moshkovitz.
41st Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2021.
[Paper]

A Cheeger Inequality for Small Set Expansion
Akhil Jalan.
Manuscript, 2023.
[Paper]

Optimization and Controls

Incentive-Aware Models of Financial Networks
Akhil Jalan, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Purnamrita Sarkar.
Operations Research, 2024.
[Paper]

Too Many Fairness Metrics: Is There a Solution?
Swati Gupta, Akhil Jalan, Gireeja Ranade, Helen Yang, Simon Zhuang.
Ethics of Data Science 2020.
[Paper]

Some New Numeric Results Concerning the Witsenhausen Counterexample
Vignesh Subramanian, Laura Brink, Nikunj Jain, Kailas Vodrahalli, Akhil Jalan, Nikhil Shinde, Anant Sahai.
54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. 2018.
[Paper]

Dissertations and Theses

Heterogeneous and Dynamic Network Modeling and Statistical Inference with Provable Guarantees
Akhil Jalan.
PhD Dissertation, UT Austin 2025.
[PDF]

The Structure of the Sandpile Group
Akhil Jalan.
Bachelor's Thesis, UC Berkeley 2019.
[PDF]