Alankar Atreya
B.E., Dipl. Ing., DPhil
Post-doctoral Researcher (Data Scientist)
Alankar is a post-doctoral research scientist based at Oxford Population Health and Big Data Institute, where he also obtained his DPhil. Based on the digital data (audio, Bluetooth, GPS, acceleration, and images) collected from smartphone apps and wearable devices (Axivity and Fitbit), his research uses feature engineering and epidemiology methods to investigate the determinants of early Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Before starting at Oxford Population Health, Alankar worked as a research engineer at Oxford Wave Research Ltd., where he developed products in the areas of audio fingerprint analysis, audio signal processing, and speaker recognition.
Alankar's DPhil focussed on audio semantics and content analysis on recordings collected from "GameChanger", a major new study for detecting longitudinal cognitive change in population-level cohorts. He has a bachelor's degree (BE) in Computer Science and Engineering and a master's (MSc) from the Institute of Information Technology, Alpen-Adria Universität, Austria - his thesis on "Combining multiple tracking approach to improve performance".