Braja Patra
Senior Health Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBraja Patra is a Senior Health Data Scientist based in New York with over a decade of research experience and nine years of applied professional work developing NLP, information retrieval, recommendation, sentiment analysis, and clinical information extraction systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has moved research into practice across academia and healthcare—most recently at NYC Health + Hospitals after multi-year roles at Weill Cornell Medicine and UTHealth. His expertise spans building advanced question-answering and health-focused extraction pipelines that bridge clinical text and decision support, and he has a strong background in language resources for Indian languages from early research projects. Comfortable navigating both deep research problems and productionization in hospital settings, he brings a track record of producing reproducible, domain-tailored algorithms that improve patient-facing and provider workflows.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at West Bengal University of Technology, KolkataDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Jadavpur UniversityMaster of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Agartala
English, Bengali, Hindi, Odia
Github Skills (2)
webservice5
word-embeddings3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brajagopalcse/SAIL_CodeMixed-ICON-2017
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 27 pushes in 5 months
brajagopalcse/Social_Support_Social_Isolation_Extraction
Mar 2024 - Jul 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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