Hello, I am Pradipta Ranjan Ray, a 4th year Ph.D. student at the Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon. I am advised by Professors Eric Xing (in the SAILING Lab) and Veronica Hinman (in the Hinman Lab). I work on computational aspects of comparative regulatory genomics, with applications to Drosophilae and Echinoderms. For details, see projects and publications.
I was born and brought up in vibrant Kolkata, one of India's largest cities situated in the Ganga - Brahmaputra delta, a land of rivers, lakes and fish.
My alma mater is Jadavpur University, Kolkata - where I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering in 2002. I worked on image recognition using topological features. I was also a graduate student pursuing M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Communication Empowerment Laboratory, Computer Science & Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where I worked on Bengali Natural Language Processing including developing a Text to Speech system, a grapheme to phoneme mapper, and a phonetic spellchecker for Bengali.
I joined CMU while ABD at IIT in 2004, as a graduate student in the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science. I transferred into the Computational Biology program in 2008 having collected an M.S. along the way in LTI.
I love to read, hike and photograph, not to mention collecting esoteric trivia and following Indian Cricket.