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.
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Publications
AgentSSL: Can MLE Agents Leverage Unlabeled Data?
Akanksha Sarkar*, Ethan Lin*, Ziang Liu, Kristin Branson, Jennifer J. Sun
In Submission to NeurIPS 2026
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
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
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