Vikas K. Didwania is a federal prosecutor at the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois. As a prosecutor, he has investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal criminal cases concerning national security and terrorism, complex fraud, violent crime, and narcotics trafficking. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, Vikas worked as a litigation associate and partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, and as a law clerk for Judge Pamela A. Rymer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Vikas graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Economics and Political Science and received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, graduated with High Honors, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.