About me

Hi, I am Prateek, currently a PhD student at CSE Department, IIT Bombay, (generously funded by the Prime Minister Research Fellowship).

I had a brief 2.5 year stint at Microsoft Research India with Dr. Amit Sharma and Vageesh Chandramouli where I worked on building recommendation systems using causal inference as part of SCAI (Center for Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence). During this time I also collaborated with Prof. Malay Bhattacharyya at Indian Statistical Institute w.r.t to Anomaly Detection in Large Graphs using Streaming Sketches and with Dr. Bryan Hooi’s lab at NUS focusing on streaming algorithms and heavy-hitters.

My research interests lie in optimization problems in machine learning theory.

News

[12/03/2024] Received Travel Grant from ICLR
[15/01/2024] Paper on Bayesian Coreset Optimization accepted to ICLR 2024.
[28/01/2023] Attending Google Research Week at Bangalore
[31/08/2022] Awarded the prestiguous Prime Minister Research Fellowship as a Direct Fellow Cycle 9
[25/07/2022] Joined IIT Bombay as a PhD Student.
[17/12/2021] Bachelor Thesis Work accepted at AAAI-22 Workshop on Machine Learning for Operations Research
[11/12/2021] Paper on Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning Control accepted at AAAI-22 Workshop on Robust Artificial Intelligence System Assurance
[2/11/2021] Acting as a Reviewer for AISTATS 2022
[30/10/2021] Paper on Reaching out : Towards a sustainable allocation strategy between users and therapists accepted at Machine Learning in Public Health Workshop @NeurIPS
[15/9/2021] Selected for AISTATS 2022 Mentorship Program. Working with Dr. Aadirupa Saha from Microsoft Research NYC on Anomaly Detection in Large Data Streams using Game Theory and RL.
[21/10/2021] Paper on Real time anomaly detection in Large Scale Distributed Systems accepted at ML for Systems @NeurIPS
[2/10/2021] Paper on Human Computation and CrowdSourcing for Earth accepted at AAAI HCOMP (Blue Sky Ideas)
[16/8/2021] Selected as a mentee under AI for Science @NeurIPs workshop to work with Prof. Malay Bhattacharyya, Indian Statistical Institute.
[12/7/2021] Work on MindNotes (our work at Microsoft Research on building a socio-technical mental health platform) accepted at CSCW [Demo Paper]
[24/4/2021] Invited to be a Program Committe member for Outlier Detection and Description Workshop @KDD.

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Bayesian Coreset Optimization for Personalized Federated Learning

Prateek Chanda, Shrey Modi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Accepted The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)(Awarded ICLR Travel Grant.)

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Would I regret later joining this Community ? Using temporal neighborhood information for community retention in a game theoretic community detection framework

Prateek Chanda and Susanta Chakraborty

Accepted AAAI-22 Workshop on Machine Learning for Operations Research (ML4OR)

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Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning Control framework