Ishaan Mahajan

I believe the intersection of control, optimization, and machine learning holds immense potential to improve human lives. I am particularly interested in integrating rigorous mathematical theory with data-driven methods in a hardware–software co-design loop, enabling deployment on real robots.

I am currently a second-year master's student at Columbia University, advised by Professor Brian Plancher and James Anderson.

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.