Varun Giridhar

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I am a Master's student at Georgia Tech advised by Animesh Garg. I study how learned models behave and turn those insights into robust systems. My interest centers on reinforcement learning, world models (neural simulators), and gradient-based optimization.

If you are interested in working together or have any questions, feel free to reach out via email!

research

2025

Towards Policy-Aware World Models

Varun Giridhar, Ignat Georgiev, Hrishit Leen, Nicklas Hansen, Animesh Garg

Under Review

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2024 and before

Explorations in Dynamics Decomposition for Multi-Task RL

Varun Giridhar, Ignat Georgiev, Nicklas Hansen, Animesh Garg

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PWM: Policy Learning with Multi-Task World Models

Ignat Georgiev, Varun Giridhar, Nicklas Hansen, Animesh Garg

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

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Autonomous Cars Addressing Rural Road

Varun Giridhar

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books on my shelf

Cthulhu Mythos - H.P. Lovecraft
The Martian — Andy Weir
The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
Self-Reliance and Nature — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World — Jack Weatherford
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Wager — David Grann
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
The Age of Vikings — Anders Winroth