Rohit Patra
Staff Applied Researcher at University of Florida
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRohit Patra is a Staff Applied Researcher at LinkedIn and a seasoned statistician with a decade of experience applying advanced statistical theory to large-scale recommendation systems. Trained at the Indian Statistical Institute and holding a Ph.D. from Columbia, he blends deep expertise in semiparametric and nonparametric methodology with practical ML engineering to build automated, tuning-free procedures that scale. Previously an assistant professor at the University of Florida, his research focused on efficient estimation, shape-constrained nonparametric methods, and bootstrap inference—skills he now uses to improve real-world recommender performance and robustness. He has academic roots in mixture models and likelihood-based theory from Cambridge and Columbia, and early industry experience building image-based damage detection prototypes at AIG. Based in New York, Rohit is notable for bridging rigorous large-sample theory with production ML systems, bringing both theoretical guarantees and pragmatic automation to complex data problems.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Statistics, Statistics, Bachelor of Statistics, Statistics at Indian Statistical InstitutePh.D, Statistics, Ph.D, Statistics at Columbia University
English, Odia
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
portable7
xgboost7
java7
gradient7
machine-learning7
scalable6
distributed-systems6
python6
scala6
spark6
sublime-text6
dockerfile5
docker-image5
dataflow5
big-data4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
somabhamukherjee/QuasiconvexLSE
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
rohitpatra/QuasiLSE
Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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