Dr. Arun Verma is a Postdoctoral Associate in the interdisciplinary research program Manus, and Machina (M3S) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), where he works with Prof. Daniela Rus (MIT) and Prof. Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS). Before this position, he was a Research Fellow in Department of Computer Science at National University of Singapore, working with Prof. Bryan Kian Hsiang Low.
Dr. Arun Verma earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), where his doctoral thesis received two awards: Naik and Rastogi Excellence in Ph. D. Thesis Award and COMSNETS Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. His research interests primarily lie in developing and analyzing efficient and practical algorithms for sequential decision-making problems by exploiting the underlying problem structures, with their practical applications in a wide range of domains such as Large Language Models (LLMs), AutoML, and AI for Science.
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Workshop on Continual Adaptation at Scale: Towards Sustainable AI, in conjunction with ICML 2026 (covered by VentureBeat)
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Ryan Wei Heng Quek (NUS), Sanghyuk Lee (U Tokyo & Liquid AI), Alfred Wei Lun Leong (NUS & AI Singapore), Arun Verma (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Nancy F. Chen (A*STAR), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS & SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT & SMART), Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT & SMART)
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Workshop on Principled Design for Trustworthy AI: Interpretability, Robustness, and Safety Across Modalities, in conjunction with ICLR 2026 (Spotlight), and ICML Workshop 2026 (Oral)
2026
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Article
Status:
Arxiv
Authors:
Thanh Q. Tran (NUS), Arun Verma (SMART), Kiwan Wong (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS & SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT & SMART), Wei Xiao (NTU & SMART)
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Machine Learning (Special Issue on ECML-PKDD 2026 Journal Track)
2026
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Ze Yu Zhang (NUS), Nhung Bui (NUS), Arun Verma (SMART), Bolin Ding (Alibaba, Singapore), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS & SMART)
Keep Everyone Happy: Online Fair Division of Numerous Items with Few Copies
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ICML 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Arun Verma (SMART), Indrajit Saha (IIT BHU), Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (SMART & NUS)
MineDraft: A Framework for Batch Parallel Speculative Decoding
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ICML 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Zhenwei Tang (NTU), Arun Verma (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (SMART & MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (SMART & NUS)
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ICLR 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Arun Verma (SMART), Dai Zhongxiang (CUHK-Shenzhen), Daniela Rus (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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NeurIPS 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Jiangwei Chen (NUS & A*STAR), Pham Kieu Thao Nguyen (NUS), Rachael Hwee Ling Sim (NUS), Arun Verma (SMART), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Chuan-Sheng Foo (A*STAR), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria, 27th July, 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Arun Verma (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), and Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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Venue:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Ze Yu Zhang (NUS, co-first author), Arun Verma (SMART, co-first author), Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard University), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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Venue:
Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment, in conjunction with ICLR 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Arun Verma (SMART), Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Dai Zhongxiang (CUHK-Shenzhen), Daniela Rus (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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Venue:
13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-25)
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Arun Verma (SMART, co-first author), Zhongxiang Dai (CUHK-Shenzhen, co-first author), Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Patrick Jaillet (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)