Akanksha Sarkar

Akanksha Sarkar

MS CS @ Cornell University · as2637@cornell.edu

I am a second-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.

Akanksha Sarkar

News

May 2026 Started as ML Engineer Intern on the Siri team at Apple.
August 2025 Started MS in Computer Science at Cornell University.

Publications

AgentSSL

AgentSSL: Can MLE Agents Leverage Unlabeled Data?

Akanksha Sarkar*, Ethan Lin*, Ziang Liu, Kristin Branson, Jennifer J. Sun

In Submission to NeurIPS 2026

Coming Soon
FormulaCode

FormulaCode: Evaluating Agentic Optimization on Large Codebases

Atharva Sehgal*, James Hou*, Akanksha Sarkar, Ishaan Mantripragada, Swarat Chaudhuri, Jennifer J. Sun, Yisong Yue

accepted at ICML 2026

Bioacoustics

Agentic Discovery of Multi-Channel Bioacoustic Association Algorithms

Paramjyoti Mohapatra, Irina Tolkova, Akanksha Sarkar, Atharva Sehgal, Daniel P. Salisbury, Andrew L. Von Duyke, Léa Bouffaut, Holger Klinck, Jennifer J. Sun

accepted at FM4Science @ ICLR 2026

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

Teaching

Spring 2026 CS 4782 — Introduction to Deep Learning
Fall 2025 CS 6784 — Research Design for Machine Learning
Spring 2025 CS 4820 — Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms
Fall 2023 CS 3110 — Functional Programming with OCaml
Spring 2022 – Spring 2023 Math 1120 — Calculus II (Course Consultant)

Awards

2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award nomination
2024 Cornell University Milstein Summer Research Grant
2023 HackNITR Hackathon, Excellence Award