He has nearly two decades of research experience in machine learning and specifically, in reinforcement learning. Currently his research interests span across data mining, social network analysis, and reinforcement learning. Prof. Ravindran is the Co-Director of the Reconfigurable and Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE) Group at IIT Madras. He also heads the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Data Sciences at IIT Madras. He has served as the General Co-Chair of the 2015 Big Data Summit at Sydney. Prof. Ravindran received Yahoo! Faculty research gifts in 2009 and 2014 to work on mining real-world text data and unrestricted research gifts from KLA Tencor in 2014 and 2015.