Dr Arijit Patra is a Senior Principal Scientist at UCB Biopharma UK. He holds a PhD in machine learning for healthcare imaging 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. He has authored several publications around machine learning and medical imaging and is a reviewer for multiple peer reviewed venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, MICCAI and several journals. Arijit has been appointed as a Rising Leaders fellow of the Aspen Institute UK, and as an International Strategy Forum fellow in 2024.