projects | Sumantrak Mukherjee

These pages are structured as research dossiers rather than portfolio cards. Each project page is meant to capture the motivating question, the modeling choices, and the outputs that belong together.

decision making

Multi-Task Bandits and Shared Priors

How shared structure across tasks can make exploration more sample efficient.

decision making

Priors from Language Models

Using foundation models as a source of Bayesian prior information.

decision making

Fairness-Aware Learning Systems

Earlier work on fairness metrics and algorithmic interventions.

decision making

Human and Bounded-Rational Decision Models

Modeling rational agents with human biases in decision processes.

decision making

X Hacking and Misguided AutoML

Studying how automated model search can produce misleading scientific conclusions.

decision making

causality

Causal Decision-Making and Bayesian Optimization

Using causal structure when interventions are expensive and graph knowledge is incomplete.

causality

CLAM and Local Effect Estimation

Recovering local causal effects from coarse spatial data.

causality

event modeling

Interpretable Spatio-Temporal Point Processes

Event models for complex temporal and spatial dynamics, with interpretability kept in view.

event modeling