Arijit Patra

Dr Arijit Patra is a Senior Principal Scientist at UCB UK and an Honorary Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Glasgow. He holds a PhD in machine learning for healthcare from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar (India & Exeter, 2016). Prior to that, he completed a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur, India. He has also been associated with AstraZeneca, Shell, Microsoft Research and CSIR-South Africa at various points in his career and has been actively involved in the AI4SG (AI for Social Good) community and was an invited expert to the UK-India Track 1.5 Dialogues on technology security and diplomacy. He has authored several publications around machine learning, medical imaging, responsible AI and so on, and is a reviewer for multiple peer reviewed venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, MICCAI and several journals, and has spoken at more than 50 conferences, panels, trade and multilateral events, and allied venues. Arijit has been appointed as a Rising Leaders fellow of the Aspen Institute UK, as an Aspen Ideas Health Fellow 2025 and as an International Strategy Forum fellow in 2024, and won the Society of Toxicology RSESS Award in 2026.