FAQ

Commonly Asked Questions

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• 1. How do you pronounce your name?

  RAH-jesh NUN-dih-PAH-tee

• 2. What's your educational background?

  I studied biology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where I was a James H. & Minnie M. Edmonds Endowed Scholar. My pre-medical track centered on serving rural communities. Rather than heading straight to medical school, I earned a Master of Healthcare Innovation at Arizona State University to understand the technologies reshaping healthcare delivery, then worked as a clinic administrator to gain hands-on operational experience. The work convinced me the biggest gaps I observed were technical, so I pursued a Master of Engineering in AI & Machine Learning at George Washington University to build and deploy systems myself.

• 3. What made you pursue a master's in AI/ML?

  I wanted a strong technical foundation for building and deploying AI systems across industries adopting them, not only in healthcare. Faced with a choice between medical school and building intelligent systems, I saw a better personal fit and stronger demand in the technical path, where I could still apply my healthcare background.

• 4. What did your AI/ML coursework cover?

  Natural Language Processing, Intro to Computer Vision, Applied Machine Learning, Cloud Computing & Security, Autonomous Systems and Robotics, Python Applications in Data Analytics, Quantitative Foundations in AI, Program and Project Management, and AI: Law and Ethics.

• 5. Did you do a thesis or a capstone?

  I completed a three-person capstone, "Muti-Task Review Triage Classification", which used a fine-tuned BERT model to triage roughly 12,000 Uber reviews. I owned model evaluation, and that included precision, recall, per-class and weighted F1, confusion matrices, and urgency MAE across model variants.

• 6. You started in biology, then healthcare, now AI/ML. What's your motive?

  There's a consistent thread, which is to improve how care is delivered, especially for rural communities and aging urban areas. Biology provided me the scientific foundation, healthcare innovation and clinic operations showed me where the system breaks down, and AI/ML gives me the tools to close those gaps at scale. I'm now focusing on AI in general, and not just in healthcare.

• 7. How does your healthcare background inform your AI work?

  Running the revenue cycle, EHR operations, billing, and compliance showed me exactly where rule-heavy, error-prone workflows could be improved with NLP and classical ML. It also taught me that domain context defines what "correct" actually means.

• 8. What is a Master of Healthcare Innovation?

  The Master of Healthcare Innovation is a leadership program in the science of innovation with an emphasis on leading change within organizations: designing, testing, and applying new processes and products. The program overlaps with a PMP certification in its project and process focus, but adds evidence-based decision-making, redesigning system infrastructure, and entrepreneurship.

• 9. Do you still use your biology background?

  Yes. There's a connection between fraud detection and outbreak investigations. Tracing salmonella cases to one supplier runs the same logic as gathering a cluster of bad outcomes, and tracing backwards through a network until the original point of contact is discovered. To stay sharp on the subject, pieces on genomics, endocrinology, and environmental toxicology are occasionally written on Field Notes.

• 10. When do you graduate? Are you open to working remotely, in-person, or in a hybrid format? Do you require visa sponsorship?

  I graduated in May 2026. Any format is fine with me, and I'm willing to relocate. As a US Citizen, I don't require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

• 11. Do you hold any certifications alongside your degrees?

  Not yet. Currently, I'm working towards the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM). In the meantime, my degrees cover the foundation, Projects demonstrates what I can bring, and Field Notes illustrates my reasoning.

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