Rohit Patra
Staff Applied Researcher at LinkedIn
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 (29)
machine-learning6
java6
xgboost6
docker-image6
scala5
distributed-systems5
sublime-text5
python5
spark5
dataflow4
sublime4
hadoop4
dropbox3
dask3
julia3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
somabhamukherjee/QuasiconvexLSE
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
rohitpatra/rohitpatra.github.io
Jan 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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