Summary
Kalpana Raja is an NLP-focused data scientist and faculty member with a decade of experience translating clinical EHR data into actionable biomedical insights. She combines a PhD-level background in bioinformatics with hands-on skills in Java, Python, R and SQL to drive projects in drug repositioning, computational biology, and text-mining of biomedical literature. Her career spans academic research and industry roles at Yale School of Medicine, UTHealth, Sema4 and major research institutes, where she has applied machine learning to extract relationships between biomedical entities. Based in New Haven, she brings both deep domain expertise in pharmacology and practical experience turning research prototypes into healthcare analytics used in clinical contexts. An observant collaborator, she often bridges clinician questions and computational solutions, making complex EHR signals interpretable for research and practice.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, Computer Science, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, Computer Science at Bharathiar University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Robert Gordon University
Bachelor of Pharmacy - BPharm, Pharmacology, Bachelor of Pharmacy - BPharm, Pharmacology at Tamilnadu Dr M G R Medical University