Rathin Desai

PhD Candidate · Department of Computer Science · Boston University

Rathin Desai

About Me

I am a final-year PhD student working under the supervision of Mark Bun at Boston University. Previously, I was a research intern at the National University of Singapore working with Prof. Arnab Bhattacharyya and Prof. Ioannis Panageas.

Before that, I interned at Microsoft Research India with Dr. Amit Sharma. I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Pune, majoring in Computer Engineering. During my undergrad, I was fortunate to work with Dr. Piyush Srivastava at TIFR and Dr. Yogesh Wadadekar and Dr. C.H. Ishwara Chandra at NCRA-TIFR.

My research interests broadly lie in theoretical computer science, including statistical and computational learning theory, distribution testing, and privacy.

Publications

  1. Oracle-Efficient Differentially Private Learning with Public Data
    NeurIPS 2024, TPDP 2025.
    Adam Block, Mark Bun, Rathin Desai, Abhishek Shetty, and Steven Wu
  2. Private Learning may be harder than Online Learning
    ALT 2024 (Outstanding Paper Award), TPDP 2024.
    Mark Bun, Aloni Cohen, Rathin Desai
  3. Sample Efficient Statistics for Sparse Graphical Models from Truncated Samples
    AISTATS 2021
    Arnab Bhattacharyya, Rathin Desai, Sai Ganesh Nagarajan, Ioannis Panageas
  4. Quantifying Error in the Presence of Confounders for Causal Inference
    New in ML Workshop at NeurIPS 2019.
    Rathin Desai, Amit Sharma
  5. GARUDA: GMRT Archival Utility for Data Analysis
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
    Rathin Desai, Shubhankar Deshpande, Archit Sakhadeo, Shadab Shaikh, Yogesh Wadadekar, Huib Intema, B. Ratnakumar, Lijo George, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, Divya Oberoi