About
Shivvrat Arya
Assistant Professor, NJIT
Director of ARIA Lab
Awards & Honors
Research Recognition
- Spotlight Presentation at NeurIPS 2026
Recognized for Neural Dual Bounds: Valid-by-Construction JGLP Warm-Starts for MAP and Constrained MAP, ranked among the top 1% of papers at NeurIPS 2026
- Oral Presentation at CIKM 2025
Recognized for RELINK: Edge Activation for Closed Network Influence Maximization via Deep Reinforcement Learning, selected for oral presentation at CIKM 2025
- Spotlight Presentation at NeurIPS 2024
Recognized for A Neural Network Approach for Efficiently Answering Most Probable Explanation Queries in Probabilistic Models, ranked among the top 2% of accepted papers at NeurIPS 2024
- Best Paper Award at UAI TPM 2024
Awarded for A Neural Network Approach for Efficiently Answering Most Probable Explanation Queries in Probabilistic Models
- Oral Presentation at AAAI 2024
Neural Network Approximators for Marginal MAP in Probabilistic Circuits selected for oral presentation, top 3% papers
Professional Recognition
- Silver Reviewer
Recognized as a Silver Reviewer for ICML 2026
- Top Reviewer
Recognized among the top 8% of reviewers for NeurIPS 2024
Educational Recognition
- Certificate of Academic Excellence (PhD)
Awarded for outstanding academic performance in the Computer Science Graduate PhD Program
- Certificate of Academic Excellence (MS)
Awarded for outstanding academic performance in the Computer Science Graduate Masters Program
- Jonsson School Graduate Study Scholarship
Awarded for outstanding academic performance in graduate studies
- Central Sector Scheme of Scholarships for College and University Students
Awarded by the Department of Higher Education, India, covering the full duration of undergraduate and graduate studies