PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Aditya Mahajan

Aditya Mahajan studies reinforcement learning and control for partially observed systems; he earned a BTech in electrical engineering at IIT Kanpur and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He shared the 2015 IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award with Ashutosh Nayyar and Demosthenis Teneketzis, and received a 2016 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award and a 2024 Jean d'Alembert Fellowship. In 2022, he coauthored an approximate-information-state framework for planning and reinforcement learning, and in 2025 he coauthored work on regularized Q-learning for POMDPs. As of October 2026, he is a full professor in McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a core academic member of Mila.

Timeline

  1. 2015

    A George Axelby award

    He shares the 2015 IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award with Ashutosh Nayyar and Demosthenis Teneketzis for their paper on decentralized control with partial history sharing. His research spans decentralized stochastic control, team theory, reinforcement learning, multi-armed bandits and information theory.

  2. 2016

    An NSERC award

    He receives a 2016 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award.

  3. June 2016–November 2023

    Associate professor at McGill

    From June 2016 to November 2023, he serves as an associate professor in McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  4. 2022

    Approximate information states

    With Jayakumar Subramanian, Amit Sinha and Raihan Seraj, he publishes “Approximate Information State for Approximate Planning and Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observed Systems” in the Journal of Machine Learning Research in 2022. Their framework uses approximate information states to form an approximate dynamic program and bound the policy's loss of optimality.

  5. November 2023

    Full professor at McGill

    In November 2023, he becomes a full professor in McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  6. 2024

    A Jean d'Alembert Fellowship

    He receives a 2024 Jean d'Alembert Fellowship from Université Paris-Saclay.

  7. 2025

    Q-learning for POMDPs

    In 2025, he coauthors “Convergence of regularized agent-state-based Q-learning in POMDPs” with Amit Sinha and Matthieu Geist for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and Mila member

    As of October 2026, he is a full professor in McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a core academic member of Mila. He earns a BTech in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan. His current research includes reinforcement learning, structure-aware reinforcement learning and multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Career

  1. Since 2016McGill UniversityAssociate Professor, Full Professor
  2. NowMilaCore Academic Member

Education

  1. Indian Institute of Technology KanpurBTech in Electrical Engineering
  2. University of MichiganMS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Aditya Mahajan. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes McGill University. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  3. Universities (31%) and startups and other companies (25%) employ the largest shares of 2020–2026 entrantsIncludes Mila. Among 819 people whose first recorded role started in 2020–2026 and who have a known current organization, 60% work in commercial sectors (25% at startups and other companies, 23% at frontier labs and 13% at big tech, with 9 in two), and 31% work at universities, compared with 66% for earlier entrants.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes McGill University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Ashutosh Nayyar, Aditya Mahajan, Demosthenis Teneketzis - 2015 recipient of IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award ieeecss.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. bio – Aditya Mahajan adityam.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Aditya Mahajan : GERAD gerad.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Approximate Information State for Approximate Planning and Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observed Systems jmlr.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Aditya Mahajan | Mila mila.quebec. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Aditya Mahajan | Electrical and Computer Engineering - McGill University mcgill.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.