Prateek Jain is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research India. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Computer Science department at IIT Kanpur.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. His research interests are in resource-constrained machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, and non-convex optimization.

He is also interested in applications of machine learning to privacy, computer vision, text mining and natural language processing. He has served on several senior program committees for top ML conferences and also won ICML-2007, CVPR-2008 best student paper awards.