Preksha Patel Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

TA for Machine Learning with Large Datasets.

Worked on the EC2 Nitro Team to develop a microservice for monitoring and remediating droplet health in Python.Collaborated with oncall engineers to facilitate smooth deployment of new release candidates to the droplets utilizing this microservice.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Developed a time series based supervised learning model to accurately distinguish between hemorrhagic shock and septic shock in hypotensive patients in a timely manner by utilizing ECG and Plethysmographic waveforms

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Designed a neural network model in R to predict 911 phone outages using the data from NORS (network outage reporting system) with an accuracy of 92.4%.Created an accessible interface using the R Shiny package and successfully deployed the model for internal use.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Increased the accuracy of the question-answer model to extract drug designations from text from 86.3% to 98.8%.Developed a preprocessing stage for data cleaning and extracting sentences from the input HTML. Applied transfer learning techniques by finetuning a pre-trained BERT model to classify epidemiology-related sentences from news articles with an accuracy of 95.5%.Developed a neural network model to extract tables with product sales/revenues of commercialized drugs from SEC filings. Finetuned the model to obtain 90.4% accuracy and 92.8% recall.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Grader for Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Spearheaded a summary statistics analysis between the serotonin transporter gene and psychiatric disorders. Implemented a linear regression model to develop a SNP-based predictor for the serotonin transporter gene. Analyzed the correlation between the serotonin transporter gene and phenotypes in over 500 datasets.Performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to determine the SNPs associated with changes in mitochondrial chromosome reads.PRESENTATIONSPatel, P; Majumdar, A; Pasaniuc, B; Ophoff, R. “A summary-statistics based approach shows negligible association between serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism and psychiatric phenotypes.” American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Virtual Meeting, October 2020. Poster Presentation.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Designed an online survey to assess anxiety levels and sleep quality of Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) practitioners and non-practitioners by employing standardized scales. Analyzed the impact of the SKY breathing technique on anxiety and sleep using linear mixed models and found a significant improvement in sleep quality and reduction in stress levels following SKY practice.PRESENTATIONSPatel, P; Ghahremani, D. “Just Breathe: Impact of Combined Controlled-breathing and Emotion Regulation Training on Medical and Undergraduate Student Well-being.” Semel HCI Poster Day, CA, May 2021. Poster Presentation.Patel, P; Ghahremani, D. “Just Breathe: Impact of Combined Controlled-breathing and Emotion Regulation Training on Medical and Undergraduate Student Well-being.” UCLA Undergraduate Research Poster Day, CA, May 2020. Poster Presentation.Patel, P; Ghahremani, D. “Just Breathe: Impact of Combined Controlled-breathing and Emotion Regulation Training on Medical and Undergraduate Student Well-being.” Semel HCI Poster Day, CA, May 2020. Poster Presentation.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Data Science, 4.16

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Neuroscience, Computer Science, 3.95

High School Diploma