Ritwik’s Academic Webpage

Hi, I am a final year PhD candidate in Statistics at University of Texas at Austin. I am currently doing research broadly related to building robust and reliable machine learning models for decison making. To learn more about my research, please check out Research where i give a brief overview. To check out the projects, see Publications . I hope to talk about my projects in more detail later in blog posts and share the slides as well. At UT, I am advised by Dr. Arya Farahi and also a part of CosmicAI institute.

If you’d like to know more about me, I also have a personal website. It is more of a creative outlet, where I share my experiences and post some photos I took while travelling!

News

  • June 2026 I am on the job market for positions beginning Summer 2027. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss opportunities.
  • May 2026 Won International Society of Bayesian Analysis Travel Award for presenting research at ISBA 2026
  • March 2026 Awarded Outstanding Graduate Research Fellowship, covering funding for academic year 2026-2027.
  • Feb 2026 New paper on measurement error out on arXiv.
  • May 2025 Presented work on trustworthy ML at AISTATS 2025.
  • May 2025 Won Keller Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership skills and supporting others during PhD.

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Selected Publications

Convolutional Maximum Mean Discrepancy for Inference in Noisy Data

R. Vashistha, J. M. Phillips, A. Sarkar, A. Farahi

arXiv preprint, 2026

U-trustworthy Models: Reliability, Competence, and Confidence in Decision-Making

R. Vashistha, A. Farahi

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

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