Arnab Jena

Working at the intersection of technology, policy, and society to enable responsible data sharing and innovation across sectors like urban development, agriculture, geospatial services, and healthcare.

• •Fostering collaboration between academia, industry, and government to address pressing challenges across sectors and empower stakeholders to develop solutions that drive equitable and sustainable progress.
• •Contributing to software platforms, AI/ML models, innovative applications, and data policies that facilitate the use of data for public good, anchored in translational research and real-world applications.

Joined as the founding engineer to architect and ship a live video streaming platform with real-time chat, taking the product from zero to a growing user base single-handedly.

• •Solo-built and scaled the platform to 40,000+ monthly unique visitors with sub-second start times
• •Designed real-time chat over WebSockets supporting thousands of concurrent connections per stream
• •Built an in house CDN network from scratch to cut cloud and bandwidth costs by ~80%

Worked on AI driven brain tumor detection using medical imaging data.

• •Implemented and evaluated deep learning models for classification and analysis of MRI scans
• •Collaborated with researchers to preprocess datasets and improve model robustness
• •Contributed to experimentation, evaluation pipelines, and result analysis for research outcomes