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.
Computers and iPhones and Mobile Phones, oh my! A logs-based comparison of search users on different devices, Maryam Kamvar, Melanie Kellar, Rajan Patel, Ya Xu, WWW 2009 MADRID, pp. 801-810.
Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data, Jeremy Ginsberg, Matthew Mohebbi, Rajan Patel, Lynnette Brammer, Mark Smolinski, Larry Brilliant, Nature, vol. 457 (2009), pp. 1012-1014.