About me

Welcome! I’m a Master’s student in Computer Science at UC San Diego (Sep. 2024 – Jun. 2026), working on machine learning and deep learning research. My research interests include vision-language models, music intelligence, conversational AI, and their applications in recommendation systems.

I completed my Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (Nov. 2020 – Jun. 2024) with a GPA of 3.98/4.00.

Education

University of California San Diego
Master of Science in Computer Science (GPA: 3.95/4.00)
San Diego, CA | Sep. 2024 – Jun. 2026

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering (GPA: 3.98/4.00)
Varanasi, UP | Nov. 2020 – Jun. 2024

Overview

Machine Learning Intern

McAuley Lab, UC San Diego

Mar. 2025 – Present

Machine Learning Intern

San Diego Supercomputer Center

Jul. 2025 – Sep. 2025

Machine Learning Intern

Cosman Lab, UC San Diego

Oct. 2024 – Jul. 2025

Deep Learning Intern

INRIA Morpheo

May 2023 – Jul. 2023

Selected Publications

WS-GRPO

WS-GRPO: Weakly-Supervised Group-Relative Policy Optimization

Gagan Mundada and co-authors

Under review at ICML

RLVR Survey

From Verifiable Rewards to Policy Learning: A Survey of Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards

Gagan Mundada and co-authors

Under review at ACL

WildScore

WildScore: Benchmarking MLLMs in-the-Wild Symbolic Music Reasoning

Gagan Mundada and co-authors

EMNLP 2025 - Main Conference

MusiCRS

MusiCRS: Benchmarking Music-Centric Conversational Recommendation

Gagan Mundada and co-authors

IEEE ICASSP 2026

SINR-Delay

SINR-Delay Constrained Node Localization in RIS-Assisted Time-Varying IoT Networks Using ML Frameworks

Gagan Mundada and co-authors

IEEE TNSM, 2025

Hyperspectral Imaging

Deep learning-based hyperspectral microscopic imaging for cholangiocarcinoma detection and classification

Gagan Mundada and co-authors

Optics Continuum