Vikas (Vik) Kumar

Dr. Vikas “Vik” Kumar is a physician-turned-Data Scientist from Niskayuna, New York. He earned his MD degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and he discovered his calling of computers and data science shortly afterward. Dr. Kumar then earned his MS degree from the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and subsequently began his career as a healthcare data scientist. He has participated in many successful projects related to descriptive, predictive and population health analytics. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and works as a Senior Data Scientist at OMNY Health.

In addition to being an author, in 2020 Dr. Kumar developed two Health Tech courses with EmergingEd, an education technology company: Health Informatics: Foundations and Frameworks and Health Analytics: Foundations and Frameworks. He has presented his research and work at many academic conferences and community meetings, including the KDD data science conference and the Data Science ATL Healthcare Analytics Meetup. Dr. Kumar has also appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

Dr. Kumar has a BS degree in Neuroscience from Brown University.