Yajat Yadav

Hi! I'm a 4th-year undergrad studying EECS at UC Berkeley. I am also a researcher at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research, advised by Sergey Levine. Previously, I've done research focusing at the intersection of deep learning and biology with Yun Song and Ahmed Alaa.

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Research

I am interested in developing reinforcement learning algorithms that enable agents like robots to continually learn generalizable skills.

Agent-based Modeling for Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support in Neuro-Oncology
Eduardo Rodriguez Almaraz, Brenda Miao, Yajat Yadav , J de Groot, J Young, A Vo, A Butte, B S Mitchel, D Raleigh, N Butowski, Ahmed Alaa
Neuro-Oncology, Oct 2024
Journal Article

Using LLM agents to simulate clinical decision-making scenarios in neuro-oncology, validated by several independent clinicians.

VROOM: Visual Reconstruction over Onboard Multiview
Yajat Yadav* , Varun Bharadwaj* , Tanish Baranwal* , Jathin Korrapati*
Preprint (Class Project), 2025
project page / arXiv / code

Reconstructing 3D F1 circuits and car motion using multiple onbard camera views.

ONG: Orthogonal Natural Gradient Descent
Yajat Yadav* , Jathin Korrapati* , Patrick Mendoza*
Preprint (Class Project), 2025
arXiv / code

A continual-learing algorithm based on natural gradients and their projections onto task-specific subspaces. Rotated MNIST figure on the left is from this paper.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, EECS 126 Spring 2025
Tutor/Reader, EE 120 Fall 2024
Tutor/Reader, EE 120 Spring 2024
Academic Intern, CS 70 Fall 2023
Academic Intern, CS 70 Summer 2023
Academic Intern, CS 61B Summer 2023
Academic Intern, CS 61A Spring 2023

Awards

EECS Evergreen Undergraduate Research Award, 2025
EECS Evergreen Undergraduate Research Award, 2024
Dean's List (UC Berkeley College of Engineering): Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
Silver Medal, National USA Biolympiad Finals, 2020

Extracurriculars

Department Relations Head, Eta Kappa Nu (EECS Honor Society)
Industry Projects Committee, Machine Learning at Berkeley
Software Division, Neurotechnology at Berkeley

Website inspired by Jonathan Barron.