Vinay Mohta
About Vinay Mohta
Vinay Seth Mohta is the Chief Technologist for Global Health Delivery. Prior to Global Health Delivery, Vinay was a founding engineer at Endeca Technologies, a leader in the enterprise search and business intelligence space. His engineering work there encompassed algorithm development for search, faceted navigation, and analytics, design and implementation of large distributed systems, and architecting and deploying large customer projects. His work contributed to several patent-pending inventions. While at Endeca, he also led the product management, marketing, and business development for Endeca's business intelligence offering. Before Endeca, he worked on the MATLAB and Simulink products at The MathWorks.
Vinay is also active in the local entrepreneurial community, helping non-profit and for-profit entrepreneurs initiate and scale up their organizations.
Vinay has an SB in Computer Science from MIT and a Masters in Engineering, also
from MIT.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Volunteer
Organization
- Global Health Delivery Project
Language(s)
- English
Recent Contributions
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Vinay Mohta started a discussion "Efficacy of computer technology-based HIV prevention interventions: a meta-analysis" in the Health IT community.
Objectives: To conduct a meta-analysis of computer technology-based HIV prevention behavioral interventions aimed at increasing condom use among a variety of at-risk populations. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of existing published and unpublished studies testing computer-based interventions. Methods: Meta-analytic techniques were used to compute and aggregate effect sizes for 12 randomized controlled trials that met inclusion criteria. Variables that had the potential to moderate intervention efficacy were also tested. Results: The overall mean weighted effect ...
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Vinay Mohta replied to "CHWs in Malawi; Mobiles facilitate patient care" in the Adherence & Retention community.
If you need any help or additional pointers on the text analysis front, let me know. There are several great open-source natural- language processing (NLP) packages available. I like Alias-i's LingPipe package - not sure if their open-source / free license will fit your needs (<http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/web/download.html>). Another option that is easy to run "out-of-the-box" is GATE (<http://gate.ac.uk/ >).
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Vinay Mohta replied to "Copyright for a code" in the Health IT community.
Ziad, In addition to the Creative Commons licenses suggested, if you have software that you have written, you can also license it under some of the common open source software licenses: * GNU General Public License (GPL) is a very common one (<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php >) * Another one is the Apache License (<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php >) Each one grants different rights to how people can use and redistribute your code. Based on my understanding, the primary difference between ...
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Vinay Mohta replied to "CHWs in Malawi; Mobiles facilitate patient care" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Josh, Here's some thoughts from a purely technology perspective: how much information do you have in terms of the exchange - do you have data on who each text came from, which SMS is an answer to another SMS (some notion of a conversation), and is it correct to presume that the content of the SMS is completely unstructured text (e.g. no formatting of any sort)? A couple of ideas - you could look at ...
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Vinay Mohta replied to "CHWs in Malawi; Mobiles facilitate patient care" in the Adherence & Retention community.
I cross-posted a link to this question in the Technology community in case there are some folks there who may have ideas (http://www.ghdonline.org/tech/discussion/interesting-question-re-organizing-data-gathered-f/)
Recent Recommendations
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