Rate My Professor Prashant Mittal

Prashant Mittal is a Professor of the Practice and Director of Professional Programs in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, and a part-time lecturer in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He holds an MS in Applied Statistics from the University of Southern Maine and an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, India. An accomplished data scientist, professor, and consultant, Mittal has built his career at the nexus of data science and business. Over more than two decades, he has taught numerous courses in machine learning, statistics, programming, health analytics, bioinformatics, and data applications at four universities, including serving as lead professor of the Analytics and Data Science graduate program at the University of New Hampshire. In industry, Mittal was Data Science lead at Lincoln Financial Group, a Fortune 500 company, managing a team of data scientists. His professional experience spans retail, insurance, fitness, and healthcare sectors, including work with large hospital systems on grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). He has analyzed healthcare claims data, electronic health records, and national public health surveillance data, applying natural language processing and statistical modeling for applications such as disability claims management.

Mittal’s research specializations include machine learning, particularly natural language processing; biostatistics and psychometrics; healthcare and public health research; data science and business; statistics; health analytics; and bioinformatics. A prolific writer, he is the co-author of multiple journal articles and reports on research in public health, education, and business. Key publications include "Measuring quality improvement in public health: the development and psychometric testing of a QI Maturity Tool" (2011), "Role of an environmental studies course on the formation of environmental worldviews: A case study of a core curriculum requirement using the NEP Scale" (2011), "Assessing quality improvement in local health departments: results from the Multi-State Learning Collaborative" (2012), "Using the electronic health record in nursing research: Challenges and opportunities" (2015), and "Evaluating the multi-state learning collaborative" (2010).