Rajan Patel

Rajan Patel

Rajan Patel is a statistician in Search Quality working to develop better ways to evaluate the quality of search results and develop new signals to improve the ranking of search results. For more information, you can visit his Emory faculty profile or his webpage.

Before joining Google, Rajan was a Biostatistics Manager at Amgen, Inc. where he designed and analyzed data from pre-clinical and Phase 1 clinical trials.

Rajan received a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Emory University in early 2006, a Masters in Computer Science from Rice University in 2002, and a Bachelors of Arts in both Economics and Computer Science from Rice in 2001.
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Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data
Jeremy Ginsberg
Matthew Mohebbi
Lynnette Brammer
Mark Smolinski
Larry Brilliant
Nature, 457 (2009), pp. 1012-1014