Amrit Singh Bedi

Biography

Amrit Singh Bedi is an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Computer Science. Before coming to UCF, Bedi was a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He worked as a research associate within the computational and information sciences directorate at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory from 2019 to 2022. His research interests lie in AI for autonomous systems, with specific emphasis on scalable and sample-efficient learning algorithms. Currently, he is working on the problem of AI alignment in language models. His paper was selected as a Best Paper Finalist at the 2017 IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. He received an honorable mention from IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2020. He received the Amazon Research Award in 2022.

Bedi’s research work is dedicated to advancing the forefront of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on critical areas that shape the future of technology and society. Navigating the complexities of AI, his research endeavors to harness its potential responsibly and innovatively. Areas of interest include:

• AI Alignment: Theoretical Insights and Practical Algorithms

• Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

• Safety/Trustworthiness in Generative AI

• Optimization Techniques for the AI Era

• Data Efficiency in Machine Learning