Suguman Bansal

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Techology. Previously, I was an NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania, mentored by Rajeev Alur. I completed Ph.D at Rice University, advised by Moshe Y. Vardi.

I lead the BansalLab at Georgia Tech. We are growing. Look here for open positions.

I am broadly interested in Formal Methods and Logic, and their applications to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Programming Languages. The long-term research goal is to build Trustworthy AI by simplifying the design-development-deployment pipeline of safe and reliable AI systems. My current research thrusts include:

  • Formal Methods for Reinforcement Learning [SAS22Keynote, AAAI23Tutorial, CAV22, NeurIPS21, Henzinger60]
  • Symbolic Quantitative Reasoning [IJCAI23, AAAI22, TACAS21, CAV19, CAV18b, FoSSaCS18]
  • Reactive Synthesis from High-Level Specifications [ATVA23 (Best Paper), CAV21, POPL20, AAAI20, CAV18a]
  • Recent and Upcoming Talks. Damera Lecture 2024 | Invited Speaker ActSynt@ECAI 2024 | Invited Speaker FSTTCS 2024

    I am married to fellow computer science professor Kuldeep S. Meel.

    Teaching

    Courses
  • CS 8803: Logic in Computer Science. Fall 2023, Georgia Tech
  • CS 4510: Automata and Complexity. Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Georgia Tech
  • Tutorials
  • AAAI 2023: Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning [Description] [Link]
  • Selected Awards and Honors

  • Best Paper Award at ATVA 2023 (Paper)
  • Keynote Speaker at the 29th Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2022)
  • NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow 2020 accompanied with a USD ~250K grant
  • MIT EECS Rising Star (2021, 2018)
  • Future Faculty Fellow 2019, Rice School of Engineering
  • Among 10 Ph.D students worldwide invited to Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2016
  • Gold Medal, ACM Student Research Competition at POPL 2016
  • Andrew Ladd Graduate Fellowship 2015 - 2016
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