Jaya Tripathi is a principal scientist at the MITRE Corporation. She received the 2017 Women of Color Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution.
Jaya is an expert in analytics and contributes to MITRE's knowledge base in this field.
MITRE's government sponsors are using Jaya's research to address the issue of preventing prescription abuse, highlighting her important role in this effort.
The tangible outcomes of her research are now being used by the Indiana State Medicaid, demonstrating the real-world impact of her work.
According to the data, opioid prescription rates in Indiana increased from 103 per 100 population in 2008 to a peak of 112 per 100 population in 2012.
Jaya has conducted research on various topics, including opioid abuse and cryptocurrency.
Her research has been presented at the Pew Charitable Trust and Mathematics Research Policy Institute.
Jaya has worked on projects covering Big Data and customer retention forecasting for a large telecommunications company and other industries.
