Rajit Rajpal

I am currently a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh in the MAC-MIGS programme funded by the Probabilistic AI Hub. My interests lie in generative modeling and optimization.

Supervised by Benedict Leimkuhler and Nikolay Malkin.

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Projects
Depth Guided Diffusion World Models (2025)
Coming soon!
Nonlinear Damping in Neural Network Training (2025)
Coming soon!
Adaptive Stepsizing for Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics in Bayesian Neural Networks
Rajit Rajpal, Benedict Leimkuhler, Yuanhao Jiang
AAAI Workshop @ Math4AI (Oral, Top 10%), (2025)
pdf / code
Frugal Zero-Shot Diffusion-Based Image Restoration (2024)
Rajit Rajpal, Marcos Obando, Dolly Chen, Bernardin Amogou
Runner-up @ Diffusion Models PhD Hackathon (2024)
poster / code
Does Translation Invariance Improve Tractable Generative Models?
Rajit Rajpal, Antonio Vergari
MSc Dissertation; Poster at BayesAI Workshop (2024)
pdf / code
Teaching

I have been a teaching assistant for:

Education
Berkeley logo University of California, Berkeley
Aug 2019 – May 2022

B.A. Data Science
Edinburgh logo University of Edinburgh
Aug 2023 – Aug 2028

MSc/PhD in Applied Mathematics
Experience
NASA logo NASA Ames Research Center – Rhombus Power
Mar 2022 – Mar 2023

Data Scientist
Qubit logo Qubit Analytics
May – Dec 2025

Research Scientist, Video Generation
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Last updated: Nov 18, 2025