Richa Verma is a Researcher at TCS Research and a PhD student at IIT Madras. She has been with TCS Research for close to 6 years and her field of research is Reinforcement Learning. Currently she is working on safety in RL and its real world applications, including combinatorial optimization problems. Previously, Richa did her M.Tech with a specialization in Data Engineering from IIIT Delhi. Her research interests include deep reinforcement learning, offline learning and explainable RL.