{"id":13323,"date":"2026-10-29T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?page_id=13323"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:45:44","slug":"vedant-thakkar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/about-us\/computingdirectory\/current-students-directory\/vedant-thakkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedant Thakkar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2025\/06\/theB.jpg\" alt=\"The big Boise State B statue.\" class=\"wp-image-10710\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 id=\"h-education\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Emphasis in Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M.S. Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Vedant Thakkar is a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Boise State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to his doctoral studies, Vedant earned his Master&#8217;s degree in Artificial Intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His current research explores the application of Reinforcement Learning to Recommender Systems and Healthcare, aiming to build more adaptive models that can solve complex, real-world problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><a href=\"mailto:vedantthakkar@u.boisestate.edu\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:vedantthakkar@u.boisestate.edu\">vedantthakkar@u.boisestate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Emphasis in Artificial Intelligence M.S. Artificial Intelligence Biography Vedant Thakkar is a Ph.D. student&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4907,"featured_media":0,"parent":12366,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13324,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13323\/revisions\/13324"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}