• 👋 Hi, I’m @aswinpaul
• 👀 I’m interested in brain-inspired agents for optimal decision-making.
• 🌱 I’m currently a PhD student at IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India.
• 💞️ I want to collaborate on topics like reinforcement learning, Bayesian agents, active inference, CRNs, etc.
• 📫 How to reach me: aswin.paul@monash.edu
• ✨ Google Scholar: link to profile.
• ✨ ORCID: link to profile.
• ✨ LinkedIn: link to profile.
• ✨ Twitter profile: link to profile.

Publications:

1. 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93736-2_47

Preprints:

1. Paul, A., Sajid, N., Da Costa, L., & Razi, A. (2023). On efficient computation in active inference. ArXiv. link.
2. 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

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.