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.

News

Apr 2026 Our paper WS-GRPO has been accepted at ICML 2026! New
Apr 2026 Our paper "Evaluating Language Model Pluralism" has been accepted at ACL 2026! New
Jan 2026 MusiCRS accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2026.
Sep 2025 WildScore accepted at EMNLP 2025 Main Conference.
Jul 2025 Started internship at San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Mar 2025 Joined McAuley Lab at UC San Diego as an ML Intern.
Oct 2024 Started working at Cosman Lab, UC San Diego.
Sep 2024 Began MS in Computer Science at UC San Diego.
Jun 2024 Graduated from IIT (BHU) Varanasi with B.Tech in Electronics Engineering.
May 2023 Deep Learning internship at INRIA Morpheo, Grenoble, France.

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 InternMcAuley Lab, UC San DiegoMar. 2025 – Present
Machine Learning InternSan Diego Supercomputer CenterJul. 2025 – Sep. 2025
Machine Learning InternCosman Lab, UC San DiegoOct. 2024 – Jul. 2025
Deep Learning InternINRIA MorpheoMay 2023 – Jul. 2023

Selected Publications

WS-GRPO

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

Gagan Mundada and co-authors

ICML 2026

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

Evaluating Language Model Pluralism through In-the-wild Crowd Discussions

Gagan Mundada, Rohan Surana, Nandhini Swaminathan, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Junda Wu, Julian McAuley, Zhouhang Xie

ACL 2026

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