Pinki Pradhan

Pinki Pradhan

PhD Student at NISER Bhubaneswar

I am a PhD student in Theoretical Computer Science at NISER Bhubaneswar, working under the supervision of Dr. Anup Bhattacharya . My research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms, particularly Randomized Algorithms and Sublinear Algorithms. I am also interested in clustering problems under limited or noisy information, including adversarial settings.

Publications and Manuscripts

Improved Sublinear-time Moment Estimation Using Weighted Sampling (2025, with Anup Bhattacharya)
Venue: CIAC 2025
[PDF (Slides)] | [Paper Link]
Improved Algorithms for Clustering with Noisy Distance Oracles (2025, with Anup Bhattacharya and Ragesh Jaiswal)
Venue: AISTATS 2026
[PDF (Slides)] | [Paper Link]

Teaching Assistantship

  • Spring 2025: Advanced Machine Learning (Instructor: Dr. Anup Bhattacharya)
  • Autumn 2024: Randomized Algorithms (Instructor: Dr. Anup Bhattacharya)
  • Fall 2023: Algorithms (Instructors: Dr. Anup Bhattacharya and Dr. Abhishek Sahu)
  • Autumn 2022: Algorithms (Instructor: Dr. Anup Bhattacharya)
  • Spring 2022: Programming and Data Structures Lab (Instructor: Dr. Anup Bhattacharya)
  • Autumn 2021: Computational Laboratory (Instructor: Dr. Anup Bhattacharya)

Conference and Workshop Presentations

  • May 2025: Poster Presentation at GALP Workshop, ICTS, Bangalore
  • June 2025: Oral Presentation at CIAC 2025, Rome, Italy

Contact

Email: pinki.pradhan@niser.ac.in
Office: M101, School of Mathematical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India