Sadhika Malladi

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research NYC and will start as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD in Fall 2026. I am actively recruiting students - please see my recruitment statement here.

I received my PhD in computer science at Princeton University, where I worked on theoretical machine learning with Sanjeev Arora. My work used mathematical insights into deep learning (especially language models) to design and analyze safe, performant, and efficient algorithms. I was recently named a 2025 Siebel Scholar. I graduated from MIT in 2019 with a degree in mathematics with computer science (18C) and a degree in philosophy (24-1). During my undergraduate studies, I also worked on language modeling at OpenAI in 2018 and 2019.

You can reach me at sadhika.malladi98@gmail.com.

In my free time, I like to ride my bike, read, and watch sports. My Google scholar page is here. I adapted this website from Gregory Gunderson.