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Subhajit Patra

Patna

Summary

Dynamic Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst with a proven track record at CIMMYT, adept in advanced Excel and data visualization. Expert in statistical modeling and project management, I successfully established a data monitoring server, enhancing data accuracy and accessibility. Passionate about leveraging data to drive impactful agrifood system solutions.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
08.2022 - 03.2025
  • Company Overview: The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project under Sustainable Agrifood System (SAS)
  • Established a data monitoring server (ODK Central Server) and systematically monitored and maintained both the server and the data
  • Set up multiple projects on the server and systematically hosted survey forms
  • Provided roles and different types of access for different users (admin, project manager, data viewer and collector)
  • Maintain the monitoring server on a regular basis
  • Using ODK forms for surveys and data collection processes
  • Designed the ODK forms (XLS forms) for all trial surveys, pre-testing, and field team orientation
  • Monitor closely incoming data and formation to final datasets
  • Reported any issues with incoming data back to the field team
  • Curated, interlinked, summarized, and analyzed trial data based on data requirements
  • Analyzed data and evaluated summary reports using various analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, R, SPSS, and QGIS
  • Designed economic and statistical models for specific cases
  • Experience working with various types of datasets including agriculture, socioeconomics, and climate
  • Monitor EiA data server and handle data collection process
  • Analyzed and finalized the data for publication on the EiA global platform with the assistance of the EiA global data management team
  • The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project under Sustainable Agrifood System (SAS)

Senior Analyst/Researcher

Foundation for Agrarian Studies
01.2019 - 07.2022
  • Developing data analytics and visual from official source data using
  • Supplying qualitative and quantitative data to colleagues & officials
  • Using advanced excel to transform & load source data from transaction system
  • Analyzing data, drawing conclusions & developing recommendations
  • Writing R- programming script to draw graphs and statistical test
  • Extensively managed various aspects of data including employment, gender, education, agriculture market, and socioeconomic factors, along with government secondary data sources such as the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) and MGNREGA (MIS data)

Data Analyst

Foundation for Agrarian Studies
04.2015 - 12.2018
  • Manipulating, cleaning & processing data using advanced Excel, and SPSS
  • Responsible for loading, extracting and validation of required data
  • Data entry, data auditing & monitoring all data for accuracy
  • Designing, developing and implementing new functionality
  • Carrying out specified data processing and statistical techniques

Education

MATER OF ARTS - ECONOMICS

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY (IGNOU)
School Of Social Science
03.2025

B. TECH -

WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Electrical
06.2014

Skills

  • Advanced Excel
  • Data visualization tools
  • BI dashboards
  • R programming
  • SPSS
  • Geofencing
  • Mapping
  • QGIS
  • Python
  • Project management
  • Big data analytics
  • Time series analysis
  • Trend analysis
  • Statistical modeling
  • Data analysis
  • Economic research
  • Root-cause analysis

Seminars Conferences Attended

  • Attended and participated Seminar on 'NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARES', sponsored by CSIR at TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE (TISS), Tuljapur.
  • Attend workshop on 'Data mining and use of NSSO data', at INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE (ISI), Bangalore.

Teaching Experience

  • Visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna on statistical software R.
  • Resource person of two days training of 'R Bootcamp: Exploring Agricultural Data' at CIMMYT (CSISA), Patna.

Publications

  • Data on performance of machine-led direct seeded rice (DSR) techniques compared to conventional rice transplanting in eastern India, Singh, Madhulika; Patra, Subhajit; Ajay, Anurag; Singh, Deepak K; Kumar, Pankaj; Kumar, Anurag; Ignatius, Moben; Ranjan, Harshit; Poonia, Shishpal; Kumar, Ajay; Joon, Rajeev; Kumar, Vipin; Sherpa, Sonam R; Malik, RK; Kumar, Virender; Laing, Alison; McDonald, Andrew; Craufurd, Peter, 2025, https://hdl.handle.net/11529/10549173
  • Multi-Year On-Farm Trial Data on the Performance of Long- and Short-Duration Wheat Varieties against Sowing Dates in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain of India, Ajay, Anurag, Singh Madhulika, Patra Subhajit, Rajan, Harshit, Pundir, Ajay, Poonia, Shispal, Kumar, Anurag, Singh Deepak, Kumar, Pankaj, Ignatius Moben, MDPI data Journal, 10.3390/data8020039
  • The Nature of and Changes in Labour and Employment in Rural West Bengal, Dhar, Niladri Sekhar, Nagbhushan, Shruti and Patra Subhajit, 2021, Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in West Bengal: A Study of Agrarian Relations, Aparajita Bakshi and Tapas Singh Modak, Tulika Books, New Delhi
  • Measuring Female Work Participation in Rural India: What Do the Primary and Secondary Data Show?, Usami, Yoshifumi with Patra Subhajit and Kapoor, Abhinav, Women and work in Rural India, V.K. Ramachandran, Madhura Swaminathan, and Shruti Nagbhushan, Tulika Books, New Delhi
  • Agrarian Structure, Production and Agrarian Relations in Khakchang, Mainama and Muhuripur, Basu, Ranjini, Dutta, Ritam, Patra Subhajit and Das, Arindam, Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura: A Study of Agrarian Relations, Swaminathan, Madhura and Basu, Ranjini, Tulika Books, New Delhi
  • Employment and wages of Manual workers, Das, Arindam and Patra Subhajit, Socio-Economic Surveys of Three villages in Tripura, Madhura Swaminathan and Ranjini Basu, Tulika Books, New Delhi
  • Labour in Small Farms: Evidence from Village Studies, Dhar, Niladri Sekhar, with Patra Subhajit, How do Small Farmers Fare? Evidence from Village Studies, Madhura Swaminathan and Sandipan Bakshi, Tulika Books, New Delhi

Projects

Took part as a Data In-charge on a project under 'Kerala Planning Board, Kerala State Government'. Took part as a Data In-charge on 'Punjab Socioeconomics'. Took part as a Data In-charge on 'Pandemic Study Unit'.

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the information given above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Field Experience

  • Surveyed three villages of West Bengal in 2015.
  • Participated as an Investigator in three villages of Tripura 2017.
  • Took part as an In-charge Kerala Planning board survey in 2018.
  • Took part as an Investigator in two villages of Bihar 2018.
  • Taken part in a pilot survey of two villages of Punjab 2019.

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Sanjoy Patra
  • Nationality: Indian

Timeline

Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
08.2022 - 03.2025

Senior Analyst/Researcher

Foundation for Agrarian Studies
01.2019 - 07.2022

Data Analyst

Foundation for Agrarian Studies
04.2015 - 12.2018

MATER OF ARTS - ECONOMICS

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY (IGNOU)

B. TECH -

WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Subhajit Patra