Vinayak Niraj

Introduction

I'm a second-year PhD student at the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick, working under the supervision of Prof. Aleksandar Mijatovic. My research interests lie in Stochastic processes, with a current focus on Hypocoercivity based approaches and their applications in ML. We'll be working on developing an understanding of sampling algorithms on domains with Heavy Tails. That means we're working on creating ML methods that help us learn rare events better. Currently, we're exploring the properties of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models and the SDEs involved. I'm supported by the Statistics Centre for Doctoral Studies (CDT) studentship for the duration of my PhD.

Before coming to Warwick, I did my B.S. in Maths at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). My bachelor's thesis was on "Regularisation of ODEs by Noise", and was done under the supervision of Prof. Srikanth Iyer (IISc), which was in continuation to the work I had done under Prof. Pierre Portal (Australian National University) as part of a research internship.

Graduate Teaching Assistant roles

I have TAship experience in the following modules at the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick.

• ST120 Introduction to Probability (2025/26 Term 1)
• ST117 Introduction to Statistical Modelling (2024/25 Term 2)