Akhilesh is currently pursuing his PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is a Teaching Assistant under the graduate engineering fellowship program advised by Dr. Aniruddha Gokhale, at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems. His Ph.D. focuses on composition of surrogate models. Akhilesh's primary research area is in control systems design and engineering with applications to various industrial applications. He also considers the application of Reinforcement Learning as one of the possible replacements for various control applications and theories while considering the optimality of the information that are being used for training the RL models.