Akanksha Sarkar
Akanksha Sarkar
as2637 at cornell dot edu
I am a first-year MS student in Computer Science at Cornell University. I am broadly interested in Computer Vision and AI4Science and am currently working on using agents for scientific applications. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jennifer Sun. Previously, I earned my B.A. in Math and Computer Science from Cornell University. Feel free to reach out for a chat or collaboration.
Research
FormulaCode: Benchmarking agentic optimization of real world code

FormulaCode: Benchmarking agentic optimization of real world code

in progress...

How many classes do we need to see for novel class discovery?

How many classes do we need to see for novel class discovery?

Akanksha Sarkar, Been Kim, Jennifer J. Sun
accepted at DG-EBF @ CVPR 2025 | [ArXiv]

Teaching Experience
Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant for CS 6784 (Research Design for Machine Learning)
Spring 2025
Teaching Assistant for CS 4820 (Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms)
Fall 2023
Teaching Assistant for CS 3110 (Functional Programming with OCaml)
Spring 2022 - Spring 2023
Course consultant for Math 1120 (Calculus II)
Awards
2025
CRA, Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award nomination
2024
Cornell University Milstein Summer Research Grant
2023
HackNITR Hackathon, Excellence award