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Shashank Rajput (Computer Science), advised by Dimitris Papailiopoulos (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Kangwook Lee (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Stephen Wright (Computer Science), works on problems in distributed machine learning and optimization. He works on developing techniques which are fast and scalable for practical use, and have theoretical guarantees. Currently, he is working on finding better shuffling mechanisms that beat random reshuffling as well as developing algorithms for training neural networks by only pruning them.