• 👋 Hi, I’m @aswinpaul
• I’m interested in brain-inspired algorithms for machine learning.
• ✨ Education:
• I am a physicist by training and completed my PhD jointly from IIT Bombay and Monash University in October 2024.
• Thesis title: Towards computationally efficient and explainable active inference.
• PhD thesis supervisor (Monash): Prof Adeel Razi.
• PhD thesis supervisor (IITB): Prof Manoj Gopalkrishnan.
• ✨ Current Employment:
• Currently, I work with VERSES AI as a machine learning researcher with Prof Christopher Buckley and team.
• ✨ Contact:
• 📫 How to reach me: aswinpaule[at]gmail.com.
• Google Scholar: link to profile.
• ORCID: link to profile.
• LinkedIn: link to profile.
• Twitter profile: link to profile.

Publications:

1. Paul, A., Sajid, N., Da Costa, L., & Razi, A. (2024). On efficient computation in active inference. Expert Systems With Applications, 253, 124315. link.
2. Paul, A., Isomura, T., & Razi, A. (2024). On Predictive Planning and Counterfactual Learning in Active Inference. Entropy, 26(6), 484. link.
3. Paul, A., Sajid, N., Gopalkrishnan, M., Razi, A. (2021). Active Inference for Stochastic Control. In: et al. Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. ECML PKDD 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1524. Springer, Cham. link

Preprints:

1. Friston, K. J., Salvatori, T., Isomura, T., Tschantz, A., Kiefer, A., Verbelen, T., Koudahl, M., Paul, A., Parr, T., Razi, A., Kagan, B., Buckley, C. L., & Ramstead, M. J. (2023). Active Inference and Intentional Behaviour. ArXiv. /abs/2312.07547
2. Khajehnejad, M., Habibollahi, F., Paul, A., Razi, A., & Kagan, B. J. (2024). Biological Neurons Compete with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Sample Efficiency in a Simulated Gameworld. ArXiv. /abs/2405.16946

Talk at Active Inference Institute: On efficient computation in active inference: link.

Experience:

1. Pymdp fellow (Northeastern University, University): Fellowship page
2. Data Officer (Monash University): Data fluency Monash

Honours/Awards:

1. Tata Chemicals Best Conference Paper Award 2022: Awarded to the best conference published in the year 2020-2021 by PhD candidates at IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India.
2. Institute Medal 2019: For securing the highest CGPA in the MSc Physics program, 2017-2019 batch, Department of Physics, VNIT Nagpur, India.
3. Academic Excellence Award 2019: For scoring the highest CGPA in MSc. Physics program, batch: 2017-2019, Department of Physics, VNIT Nagpur, India.