• Machine Learning, Online Learning, Statistical Learning Theory

1. Robust Regression via Hard Thresholding, Kush Bhatia, Prateek Jain, and Purushottam Kar, 29th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.

2. Optimizing Non-decomposable Performance Measures: A Tale of Two Classes,
   Harikrishna Narasimhan, Purushottam Kar, and Prateek Jain, 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.

3. Surrogate Functions for Maximizing Precision at the Top, Purushottam Kar, Harikrishna Narasimhan, and Prateek Jain, 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.

4. Sparse Local Embeddings for Extreme Multi-label Classification, Kush Bhatia, Himanshu Jain, Purushottam Kar, Manik Varma, and Prateek Jain, 29th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.

5. On the Generalization Ability of Online Learning Algorithms for Pairwise Loss Functions, Purushottam Kar, Bharath Sriperumbudur, Prateek Jain, and Harish Karnick, 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013.

• Post-doctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., Jul 2013 - August 2015.

• Doctoral Research Intern, Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd., May 2012 - Aug 2012.

1. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Reviewer Award, 2015.

2. Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI) Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2014.

3. Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (Yahoo! KSC) Program Honourable Mention, 2012.

4. Microsoft Research (MSR India) PhD Fellowship, 2010.

5. Academic Excellence Awards by IIT Kanpur for the years, 2005, 2006.

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• Machine Learning, Optimization