Sudeep Raja is a doctoral student in the IEOR Department at Columbia University. His research interests are in theoretical machine learning and optimization, with a specific focus on online learning, multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning. His goal is to design efficient algorithms with provable guarantees for online decision making. Sudeep holds a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Bachelor of Technology in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.