Dr. Saumyadipta Pyne, PhD
Founder and President
Dr. Pyne has 25+ years of experience in research, teaching, entrepreneurship, providing strategic advice and leadership. His areas of research include computational statistics, machine learning, data fusion and disaggregation, models of population heterogeneity, spatial complexity, skew and mixture distributions, high-dimensional and big data analysis with applications in biomedical informatics, biostatistics, detection and prediction of rare events, dynamic and emergent phenomena, public and environmental health.
- Reconstructing the unknown transcriptomic trail of evolution in single cells (GRAIL)
- Predicting the future trajectories of aging phenotypes in individuals (DyViA-GAN)
- Forecasting neurodegenerative trends in personalized cognitive functions (MARGA)
- Modeling neurodegenerative phenotypic structures with circular functions (CIFU)
- Spatial functional regression modeling of tumor molecular landscape (SFINX)
Through his writings and presentations to Data Science and AI task forces, Dr. Pyne provides strategic inputs for policies and standards such as for benchmarking different characteristics of data. He served in key technical advisory groups including HHS AI Task Force (R&D and Public Health) and DST Big Data Initiative.
Over the past three decades, he has led and participated in many international collaborations, consortia and capacity-building projects. He has long-standing collaborations with researchers in several countries including Australia, Canada, India, the UK, etc.
Dr. Pyne has been honored with oration awards, international fellowships, chair and visiting professorships, public felicitation, memorial and keynote lectures. These include Ramalingaswami Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology, India; and Senior Research Fellowship of the NIH, USA. In 2022, he was awarded the National Service Data Scholarship by NIH.
He served as the PC Mahalanobis Chair Professor and Head of Bioinformatics at the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Formerly, he was the Scientific Director of the Public Health Dynamics Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Pyne did his doctoral research at the Computer Science and Molecular Genetics Departments of SUNY Stony Brook, and the Stat-Math Unit of Indian Statistical Institute; and his postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.
Dr. Pyne has published extensively in premier journals, and serves on the editorial boards of various international journals.
Dr. Meghana Ray, PhD, MBA
Co-Founder and Vice President
Dr. Ray's research and leadership spans the interdisciplinary fields of pharmacy, public health, social and behavioral sciences, and environment sciences. Her work ranges from improving existing processes to address disparities in health services and outcomes across all health settings to evaluating policies that either facilitate or challenge progress toward equitable services and outcomes.
An application of her work in the field of disaster research led to the development of a framework for managing and training pharmacists for disasters and emergencies. Post-pandemic, Dr. Ray published a book on Disaster and Emergency Preparedness by the American Pharmacists Association, and it was deemed to be the first book to comprehensively cover all aspects of preparedness, management, and recovery by pharmacy professionals.
Her long standing work in global health encompasses projects on improving clinical processes and logistics in Haiti and Honduras through the development of an electronic inventory management system, evaluating logistics and supply chains, and developing clinical training programs and targeted interventions. In India, Dr. Ray along with her colleagues conducted multiple workshops on Health Analytics and Disease Modeling, and other areas of Data Analytics. Her leadership at the American Public Health Association led to the development of a Pharmacy Special Interest Group (now a Section) in 2014 where she has served in various leadership roles.
Dr. Ray earned her Ph.D. in Health Policy from University of Illinois at Chicago, MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology, and BPharm from University of Mumbai, India. She has worked in academic, government and non-government settings and has consulted with the U.S. FDA's Risk Communications Advisory Committee. She has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and serves on the editorial boards of international journals. As Vice President of Health Analytics Network, Dr. Ray aims to build a consortium of interdisciplinary researchers to propose cross-cutting solutions that aim to address critical public health issues.
Dr. Saurav Guha
Research Associate
Saurav Guha earned his PhD in Agricultural Statistics from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, where he works as a post-doctoral research associate. Dr. Guha works on various methodological and applied problems in statistics, including survey design and estimation methods; small area estimation; disaggregate level estimation and analysis of agricultural, socio-economic and health indicators; spatial models for survey data, multivariate modeling. He has published many research papers in premier international journals, book chapters, and conference papers.
Dr. Sumanta Ray, PhD
Research Associate
Dr. Ray is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Data Science at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning, network science, and computational biology, with a particular focus on single-cell genomics, graph neural networks, and integrative analysis of high-dimensional biomedical data. Over the years, Dr. Ray’s work has contributed to methodological advances in single-cell RNA-seq analysis, host–pathogen interaction modeling, disease module identification, and generative frameworks for biological data integration.
He has held academic and research positions in India and abroad, including postdoctoral research at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Netherlands, and a visiting academic appointment at Bielefeld University, Germany. Dr. Ray is a recipient of the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Postdoctoral Fellowship and the DST-INSPIRE Fellowship, among other national and international recognitions. To date, he has published 50+ peer-reviewed research articles in journals such as PLoS Computational Biology, Nature Communications Biology, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.https://sumantaray.github.io/resume.io/
Dr. Deep Ray, PhD
Research Associate
Dr. Deep Ray is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (India) in 2017. He subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), Rice University, and the University of Southern California.
As an applied mathematician, Dr. Ray works at the interface of numerical analysis and scientific machine learning. He has developed novel deep learning–based algorithms to overcome computational bottlenecks in traditional numerical methods. His research has applications in computational fluid dynamics, PDE-constrained optimization, operator learning, and Bayesian inference, with particular emphasis on medical applications and wildfire spread modeling.
Dr. Ray is also a co-author of the textbook Deep Learning and Computational Physics, which is targeted toward an application-oriented audience across science and engineering disciplines.
Dr. Vishal Deo
Research Associate
Vishal Deo has worked extensively in the areas of biostatistics, survival analysis, health economics, and state-space epidemiological models. His research interests include applications of econometric and time-series models, generalized linear models, and quantile regression in interdisciplinary fields of socio-economic, demographic, and environmental studies. His recently developed methodology can evaluate quality adjusted life years (QALY) based on the dynamics of progression through different states of a disease. Dr. Deo has a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Delhi. He has 12 years of teaching experience and published extensively in reputed international journals.
Our collaborators:
Dr. Marc Hochberg, M.D., MPH
Dr. Hochberg’s research focused on the clinical epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders, particularly osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. He was Principal Investigator (PI) of the Baltimore Clinical Center for the Osteoarthritis Initiative and the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. He also was Co-PI of the Baltimore Hip Studies and Co-Director of the Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core of the University of Maryland Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. His research was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Hochberg received the Clinical Research Award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) in 1999, was named one of only 50 “Postdoctoral Fellow Heroes” by the Arthritis Foundation in 2001, received the Mary Betty Stevens Clinical Research Award from the American College of Physicians (Maryland Chapter) in 2002, the Roger Demers Prize at the 42nd Laurentian Conference of Rheumatology in 2011, the Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 2012, the Lifetime Achievement Award from OARSI in 2013, the Arthur Modell Presidents Award from the Arthritis Foundation, Maryland Chapter in 2013 and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both Franklin & Marshall College and The Johns Hopkins University in 2014. He was named a Master of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology in 2014. He was General Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of OARSI, a member of the Board of Directors of both the ACR and the ACR Research and Education Foundation, President and a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Bone and Joint Initiative (USBJI) and Chair, Standing Committee on Epidemiology of the International League of Associations of Rheumatology.
He has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles and 60 book chapters, and is an editor of the textbooks “Rheumatology, 8th edition” (Mosby/Elsevier, 2023), “Epidemiology of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2nd edition” (Oxford University Press, 2001), and “Rheumatoid Arthritis” (Mosby/Elsevier, 2009). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.