Pradipta Maji was born in Contai (also known as Kanthi), East Midnapur, West Bengal, India, on 4th November 1976. He passed Madhyamik in 1993 from Contai High School and Higher Secondary in 1995 from Contai Model Institution. He received the BSc (Hons) degree in Physics in 1998, the MSc degree in Electronics Science in 2000, and the PhD degree in the area of Computer Science (Cellular Automata Evolution for Pattern Recognition) in 2005, all from Jadavpur University, India.

Currently, he is the Assistant Professor of the Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, where he was a Lecturer from March 2006 to November 2007. He was also associated with the Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, from August 2005 to March 2006 and March 2006 to May 2009 as a Visiting Faculty and Researcher (Faculty), respectively. Prior to joining the Indian Statistical Institute, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, India, from April 2004 to August 2005. In March 2004, he visited the Laboratory of Information Security & Internet Applications (LISIA), Division of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Pkyoung National University, Pusan, KOREA. During the period of September 2000 to April 2004, he was a Research Scholar of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Bengal Engineering College (DU) (currently known as Bengal Engineering & Science University), Shibpur, Howrah, India. From December 2002 to April 2004, he also served as a Research & Development Consultant of Cellular Automata Research Laboratory (CARL), Kolkata, INDIA.