Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Satrajit is a Principal Research Scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member in the Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology program in the Harvard Division of Medical Sciences. His research interests span computer science and neuroimaging, specifically in the areas of applied machine learning, software engineering, and applications of neuroimaging. The primary focus of his research group is to develop knowledge discovery platforms by integrating a set of multidisciplinary projects that span precision medicine in mental health, imaging genetics, machine learning, and dataflow systems for reproducible research. He is a lead architect of the Nipype dataflow platform, an ardent proponent of decentralized and distributed Web solutions for data sharing, querying, and computing, and a strong believer in solving problems through collaboration and crowd-sourcing.