Varun R. Gandhi

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MS in Computer Science

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Website under construction 🚧

I am interested in AI, particularly interpretability, alignment, and systems. My current work focuses on test-time reinforcement learning with uncertainty for large language models and interpreting physical reasoning in deep reinforcement learning agents.

This past summer, I interned as a Machine Learning Engineer with the Vision-Language Models team at Sarvam AI, where I contributed to their efforts in building India’s sovereign language model. The previous summer, I interned as a Data Engineer at DXFactor, developing a data warehouse and ETL pipelines.

You can reach me at vgandhi@umass.edu

news

Sep 01, 2025 Instructor for 4 sections of undergrad CS First Year Seminars this Fall at UMass!
Jan 30, 2025 Began Master of Science in Computer Science at UMass.
Oct 25, 2024 Awarded Bay State Fellowship by Manning CICS

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