pradipta ray


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introduction

Pradipta Ray

I am in the process of exiting UT Dallas, and this website is for archival purposes. The permanent home of this website will be at www.pradiptaray.com

I am Pradipta Ranjan Ray, a research scientist at The University of Texas at Dallas. My CV can be found here.

I work at the intersection of machine learning + computational genomics + sensory neurobiology. I presently focus on molecular mechanisms in sensory neurons, working on their transcriptional and translational regulatory programs, and whether they are conserved between mammalian model systems and humans. I work as part of the multidisciplinary Pain Neurobiology Research Group leading computational neurogenomics projects, and work closely with Theodore Price. I also work closely with Gregory Dussor, and Patrick Dougherty.

I am a computer scientist by training, specializing in machine learning. I trained as a Ph.D. student at the Language Technologies Institute, part of the School of Computer Science, in Carnegie Mellon. I was advised by Eric Xing (leading the SAILING Lab) and Veronica Hinman (leading the Hinman Lab). I worked on machine learning models of computational regulatory genomics, with applications to Drosophilae and Echinodermata.

Please note that email, rather than social media, is the best way to reach me.

biography

I was born and brought up in vibrant Kolkata, one of India's largest cities, situated in the Ganga - Brahmaputra - Meghna delta, a land of fish, rivers and climate change.

My alma mater is Jadavpur University, Kolkata - where I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering in 2002, working on image recognition.

I was a graduate student pursuing M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Computer Science & Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for 2 years, before transferring to Carnegie Mellon. At IIT, I worked on Natural Language Processing for Indian languages (developing the first generation of grapheme to phoneme mappers, and applying this to build Text-to-Speech synthesizers, and phonetic spellcheckers for Indian languages like Bengali and Hindi). I picked up an M.S. along the way to my Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon.

My non-work recreational interests (which I have progressively lesser time to indulge in) include, in no particular order: trivia, photography, cricket + baseball statistics, typography, cartography, contract bridge, and travels to poles of inaccessibility. I am also a bibliophile.
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