Sayak Ray Chowdhury is a Google PhD fellow at the Electrical Communication Engineering department, IISc Bangalore working with Prof. Aditya Gopalan. His research interests include reinforcement learning and multi-armed bandit problems with applications in recommendation systems, sensor networks etc. Previously, He did his M.E. in System Science and Automation from IISc, Bangalore and B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.