Ishaan Mahajan

I am currently a second-year master's student at Columbia University, advised by Professor Brian Plancher and James Anderson. I also collaborate with Zac Manchester's group and Sylvia Herbert's group. I am particularly interested in the intersection of control, optimization, and learning for software–hardware co-design under out-of-distribution scenarios.

I graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I majored in Computer Science and Data Science. During my undergraduate studies, I worked under Professor Dan Negrut, where I mainly focused on mitigating the Sim2Real gap for autonomous agents. I was also a part of Wisconsin Autonomous, where I worked as the AV Infrastructure Lead. During undergrad, I have interned at the National University of Singapore and Synechron (Fintech firm).

In my free time, I love playing squash. I have played at the national level growing up in India and have stood second in 2015, third in 2016, and first in 2017.