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Hi! My name is Chirayu Salgarkar (he/him), and I am a graduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology, where I am affiliated with the Safe AI Lab. I earned my undergraduate degree at Mercer University, where I studied biomedical engineering and mathematics.

Broadly, I study how techniques in mathematics can control highly nonlinear systems, such as those in current AI technologies. Currently, I am interested in multi-agent reinforcement learning and optimal transport. Previously, I spent time doing software development at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, as a prosthetic fitter in Cambodia, and as a research assistant at Georgia Tech’s LIDAR-FACTS Lab, where I worked on bipedal robot communication. I am an alumnus of the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics.

As of Summer 2026, I am a Graduate ML developer intern at a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working on multi-agent reinforcement learning for digital twins.

Other than that, I enjoy dancing tango (badly). In a past life, I was obsessed with beans. I still like beans.