Prateek Jain

Please visit http://prateekjain.org for the latest site and http://prateekjain.org/paper.html for my latest publications.

I am a member of the Machine Learning and Optimization and the Algorithms and Data Sciences Group at Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India. My research interests are in machine learning, large-scale (non-convex optimization), and statistical learning theory. I am also interested in applications of machine learning to privacy, computer vision, text mining and natural language processing. I completed my PhD at the University of Texas at Austin under Prof. Inderjit S. Dhillon.

I am also an adjunct faculty member at IIT Kanpur.

Professional Services

• Organization:
  • Program Co-Chair, IKDD Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS), 2016.
  • Organizer, Machine Learning Summer School, Microsoft Research, 2015.
  • Organizer, Mysore Park Workshop on Machine Learning, Mysore, India, 2012.
• Program Committee/Area Chair
  • COLT 2015, 2016
  • NIPS 2012, 2013, 2016

Students

Over the years, I have been very lucky to have worked with some amazing postdocs/interns/research fellows.

PostDocs:

• Purushottam Kar, 2013-2015 (Asst. Prof., IIT Kanpur)
• Nagarajan Natarajan, 2015- (Postdoc, MSR India)

Interns:

• Elena-Madalina Persu, Summer’2015. (Phd Student, MIT)
• Gautam Kamath, Summer’2015. (Phd Student, MIT)
• Harikrishna Narasimhan, Summer’2014. (Postdoc, Harvard University)
• Praneeth Netrapalli, Summer’2012, 2014. (Postdoc, Microsoft Research New England)
• Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Summer’2013, 2014. (Assistant Professor, TTI Chicago)
• Pravesh Kothari, Summer’2014. (Phd Student, UT Austin)
• Purushottam Kar, Summer’2012. (Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur)
• Sivakanth Gopi, Summer’2012. (Phd Student, Princeton University)
• Ankan Saha, Summer’2011. (Software Engineer, LinkedIn)
• Saurabh Gupta, Summer’2011. (Phd Student, UC Berkeley)

Research Fellows:

• Kush Bhatia, 2014-2016. (PhD Student, UC Berkeley)
• Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, 2015-. (RF, MSR India)
• Raajay Viswanathan, 2011-2013. (PhD Student, UWisc Madison)