Raghavendra Addanki is a final year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is co-advised by Andrew McGregor and Cameron Musco. He received his Bachelor's and Masters’ degrees in Computer Science from IIT Madras in 2016. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science and causal inference. The major themes in his research involve developing algorithms for large-scale data, identifying connections between discrete optimization and causal inference.