Education

Academic background

Excellence in Informatics Methods Innovation Distinguished Fellowship

Five-year fellowship funding my PhD in a traditionally non-funded program at the Institute of Health Informatics.

Best Poster Award

Annual Data Science Poster Fair, University of Minnesota.

In progress

PhD, Health Informatics (Data Science Track)

Institute of Health Informatics · University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN

  • Advisor: Dr. Erich Kummerfeld
  • Research: causal discovery methods and unbiased validation for health data
  • Excellence in Informatics Methods Innovation Distinguished Fellowship (5 years)

2025 – Present

Graduate

MS, Data Science

University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN

  • GPA: 3.85 / 4.0 (computed from transcript course grade points)
  • Graduated August 2025
  • Coursework in machine learning, statistical inference, and large-scale data analysis

2023 – 2025

Undergraduate

BTech, Computer Science & System Engineering

KIIT University · Bhubaneswar, India

  • GPA: 8.64 / 10
  • Capstone in clinical decision support and disease prediction

2017 – 2021