Sumedh is a first year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Southern California advised by Prof Laurent Itti. He's broadly interested in state representation learning and equipping machines with notions of causality. In an old life, he helped co-found a Facebook-start funded startup while completing his bachelor's degree at the College of Engineering, Pune, India in 2019. Previously, he has held undergraduate research fellow positions at Caltech and the University of Oxford in bioinformatics and computational neuroscience. He enjoys swimming, running and playing the blues on his guitar.