Hrishikesh Viswanath

I am a PhD student at Purdue University, advised by Aniket Bera. My overarching goal is to bridge physical modeling and scalable surrogate models, with a focus in robotics and reinforcement learning (RL).

I am broadly interested in scalable models for physics and their potential applications in robotics. A core problem driving my research is how to effectively integrate Partial Differential Equation (PDE) formulations and generative priors to provide geometric structure and stabilize continuous control and RL policies.

At a foundational level, I want to address the challenge of learning high-fidelity dynamics in sparse data regimes. My work relies on two core pillars: efficient modeling techniques like model-order reduction, and scalable learning strategies such as lightweight physics-informed learning, leveraging alternatives to autodiff residuals such as Monte-Carlo methods (Walk-on-Spheres).

Outside the lab, I was the 2024 Vice President of Purdue SEARCH. I mentored our NASA SUITS team to the competition finals, earning a NASA Artemis I mission flag that flew around the moon.

Hrishikesh Viswanath
Jul 2024

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I'm interested in robotics, reinforcement learning, operator learning and PINN.

Operator Learning Using Weak Supervision from Walk-on-Spheres

Operator Learning Using Weak Supervision from Walk-on-Spheres

Arxiv · 2026

Hrishikesh Viswanath*, Hong Chul Nam*, Julius Berner, Anima Anandkumar, Aniket Bera

A mesh-free training scheme that amortizes the cost of Monte Carlo walks by using the Walk-on-Spheres algorithm to provide cheap, unbiased stochastic supervision for neural operators.

Physics Informed Viscous Value Representations

Physics Informed Viscous Value Representations

Arxiv · 2026

Hrishikesh Viswanath, Juanwu Lu, S. Talha Bukhari, Damon Conover, Ziran Wang, Aniket Bera

We introduce a physics-informed regularization for offline GCRL derived from the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation’s viscosity solution. By applying the Feynman-Kac theorem, we recast value estimation as a stable Monte Carlo expectation, ensuring geometric consistency and superior performance in high-dimensional navigation and manipulation tasks.

Gradient-Free Physics-informed Operator Learning using Walk-on-Spheres

Gradient-Free Physics-informed Operator Learning using Walk-on-Spheres

NeurIPS 2025 AI for Science Workshop · 2025

Hrishikesh Viswanath*, Hong Chul Nam*, Julius Berner, Anima Anandkumar, Aniket Bera

A PINO technique for training operators using Monte-Carlo Walk-on-Spheres

Physics-informed adaptive fourier neural interpolation operator for synthetic frame generation

Physics-informed adaptive fourier neural interpolation operator for synthetic frame generation

US Patent App. 18/758,927 · 2025

Hrishikesh Viswanath*, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Rashmi Bhaskara, Aniket Bera

We introduce a resolution-independent neural operator architecture for synthetic frame generation that leverages global convolutions in the Fourier spectral domain via Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).

FairPy: A Toolkit for Evaluation of Prediction Biases and their Mitigation in Large Language Models

FairPy: A Toolkit for Evaluation of Prediction Biases and their Mitigation in Large Language Models

Arxiv · 2023

Hrishikesh Viswanath, Tianyi Zhang

We present a comprehensive survey and a modular toolkit of mathematical frameworks for quantifying and mitigating prediction bias in Large Language Models (LLMs).

  • 2027
    ICRA, ICLR
  • 2026
    ICLR, ICML, CVPR, CoRL, RA-L
  • 2025
    SIGGRAPH Asia
  • 2024
    ICLR 2025, IROS
  • LLM
    FairpyA Python toolkit for measuring and mitigating biases in LLMs. Supports WEAT, StereoSet, and NullSpace Projection.
  • Data
    MPM-VerseA large-scale physics simulation dataset for learning MPM-based dynamics (water, sand, plasticine, jelly).