Prateek Chanda - Home Page

Email : prateekkol21@gmail.com, prateekch@cse.iitb.ac.in

I am a 3rd 4th year Ph.D. student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, CSE Department advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Pratik Jawanpuria, working on large scale efficient machine learning, generously supported by the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (2022-2027) and the Microsoft PhD Award (2025-2026).

I have been a part-time Student Researcher twice at Google Deepmind India hosted by Pradeep Shenoy during (July 2023-Nov 2023 & Dec 2023-May 2024) working on Efficient Pretraining of Large Language Models and Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models for proprietary Gemini and LaMDA models. During my time at Deepmind, I had the pleasure of working with and being mentored by Dheeraj Nagaraj, Arun Suggala and Prateek Jain.

Recently, I also interned at Microsoft Research India, where I worked on generalizable and efficient test time scaling with Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma and Subbarao Kambhampati (See our work on Interwhen).

Trajectory

Before my Ph.D., I was a research software engineer (SCAI Fellow) at Microsoft Research India Bangalore, hosted by Amit Sharma and Vageesh Chandramouli. Before that, I completed my undergrad at IIEST Shibpur, advised by Prof. Susanta Chakrabarty (former Dean) and Prof. Asit Kr. Das.

Fun Fact: During my undergrad, I was an astrophysics enthusiast and often contemplated career choices. I spent much of that time contributing to SunPy (a Solar Physics Python library) alongside researchers at NASA GSFC, and in 2024 got recognized with the NASA Group Achievement Award.

Reviewer Assignments

• AAAI 25 (By Conf. submission)
• TMLR 2025 (By Invitation)
• LoG 2024 (By Invitation)
• ICLR 2025 (By Conf. submission+Invitation from 2024 Conf. Acceptance)
• NeurIPS 2025 (By Invitation)
• ICLR 2026 (By Invitation)
• ICML 2026 (By Invitation)

Trivias & Musings

Still Procastinating what to share here