Profile
Sreejita Ghosh
Data Science (Machine learning) PhD student
My CV
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Education:
Primary and Middle school: Calcutta Girls’ High School (Kolkata, India)
High School: Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Salt Lake (Kolkata, India)
Bachelors: Vellore institute of Technology (Vellore, India)
Masters: University of Groningen, The Netherlands -
Qualifications:
My school and Bachelor years were in India. My GCSE equivalent was an exam called ICSE. My cumulative percentage was 94.4 (with English language and literature, mathematics, computer applications, chemistry, physics, biology, history, geography, and my 2nd native language Bengali).
The high school leaving exam I had to take was called AISSCE and I had got a cumulative of 89% (with Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, English and Bengali) .
B.Tech in Biomedical Engineering (India).
MSc. in Biomedical Engineering (Specialization: Diagnostic imaging and instrumentation / Clinical Physics) (The Netherlands)
PhD (ongoing): Intelligent Systems group, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands -
Work History:
Internship at Philips Research Eindhoven, during Masters.
Teaching assistant for ‘Modelling and Simulation’ during Masters.
Teaching assistant for courses called ‘Introduction to Data Science’ and ‘Computational Intelligence to Neural networks’, during my PhD. -
Current Job:
PhD student in Data Science/ Machine learning, in the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. I mostly work with doctors. One of them is from University of Birmingham and her patients are kids. I specially mentioned her here because she and I are fellow Whovians and share 3 supervisors (one of them is Prof. Neville Longbottom himself). Also Liz is one of the people who helped me express what I do, so neatly. The other colleagues who helped me in this are Caroline and Aleke (who apply computer science to Astronomy), and Ahmad (who uses computer science to find out the right age for pigs to be made into bacon).
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About Me:
Usually an introvert but when I find my favourite topics of discussion I find it difficult to stop talking. I like doodling, photography, and jiujitsu.
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I am an amateur photographer and doodler. Sometimes I do a bit more serious painting to express myself. Whovian. South Park fan. I love cooking and swimming. I am also known for getting hurt too often due to my hobby of jiujitsu. Once upon a time, many many years ago I had trained to become a singer in Indian classical music. Then things arrived at a point when I had to choose between music and science. I had to quit music. Hence now that I am independent, after 12 years of separation from practicing music, I am trying to find my way back to it, but this time solely for myself. I sing while cooking and recently I have bought an ukulele and I am learning (more of struggling) to play that. I am told that I have a very dark sense of humour. I love solo travels. Whenever work and surroundings become too confusing and suffocating I plan and go on solo travels.
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My team and I have developed a ‘machine learning’ program which can identify rare diseases of the adrenal gland (a cap-like gland on top of each kidney), and help doctors find out faster which part of the adrenal gland is not working. The faster the doctors are able to find the problem the faster they are able to treat it.
Machine learning is where we teach a computer to recognise patterns in big data sets. In this case, the computer learns about perfect examples (‘prototypes’) of different adrenal diseases, from data about patients’ heart rate, blood pressure, ECG profile, and urine and blood test results. We can then show the computer some of these data from a new patient, and the computer can tell us which disease this patient might have.
Sometimes while dealing with rare diseases, doctors often do not know which hormones in the patient’s body are causing their symptoms. The program my team and I have developed can also give more information about which hormones are more and which hormones are less responsible for the disease. This can help the doctors to understand the adrenal disorders better.
We use computer science, maths and physics to help build up the model and make sure that it is as accurate as possible.
And here is a gif which shows how I use Geometry to make results of grouping by my model to appear on a spinning sphere (which I have named Sphere of Doom). The stars show the prototypes which are, as I mentioned before, the ‘perfect examples’. The alpha-numeric codes are the names of the hormone disorders which my program can find and gain knowledge about.
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My Typical Day:
Wake up-brush-tea-strum ukeleke-get ready for office-bike to office- try to understand what story the numbers are trying to tell-bike back home/ dojo.
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I have recently bought a ukulele. Everyday after waking up around sunrise, brushing and getting the first cup of tea, I try to learn how to play the ukulele less horribly than the previous day. After an hour of practice I get ready to go to my office where I spend the day trying to find out patterns (prototypes) from numbers generated by big medical machines. I teach the computer to learn to spot these patterns when a new measurement comes from the big medical machines.
Late evenings some days I go to my dojo for jiujitsu (currently training for green).
Other days I just return home to cook food (I cook just twice a week, I am a very lazy person). Sometimes there are fun things to do with friends 😉
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Train interested fellow PhD students in science communication. Try to explain to school kids in India how Maths and Physics is actually beautiful and can be used to make life lazier. Organize a meet-up for doctors in my city in India and explain to them the importance of digital book-keeping and how machine learning can ease their work load.
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Eccentric, sarcastic, introvert
What did you want to be after you left school?
Biomedical Engineer, and help doctors by making progress in healthcare related tech devices
Were you ever in trouble at school?
I used to hide in the restroom during PE. Also got caught several times and was rebuked.
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Queen, The Beatles, Poets of the Fall, Simon & Garfunkel, Kaushiki Chakraborty (you might not have heard of her)
What's your favourite food?
Potato with poppy seeds (we call it aloo posto in my native language)
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
1. A time machine, 2. Become a ninja, 3. Be able to understand baby-language
Tell us a joke.
Owl: My big break is near Panda, I can feel it. Panda: Wow! Congrats little owl. What sort of a break is it? Owl: A psychotic one.
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