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Ram Prayaga

Ram Prayaga

Adjunct Faculty Member

prayaga@callutheran.edu

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About

Ram Prayaga is a technology leader, advisor, and educator with extensive experience spanning start-ups, corporate IT, and consulting. He is currently a Chief Technology Officer at Bright Hotel, Inc a AI-first hospitality tech startup based on Los Angeles. Previously he served as CTO/Advisor at Atalan, Advisor at Humma.AI, and mPulse Mobile, where he led product and technology strategy for healthcare and patient engagement communications until successful exit. Passionate about mentorship and developing future leaders, he also serves as an Adjunct Professor at California Lutheran University. Ram holds a M.S  in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, a Cand. Mag in Informatikk (Math/CS) from University of Bergen, Norway and pursued doctoral studies in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego.

Education

  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla— Cognitive Science, Doctoral Program (No degree) - 1996-1998

  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles— M.S., Computer Science (1994)

  • University of Bergen, Norway — B.S. ( Cand Mag) Math & Computer Science (Informatikk)

Publications

  • Brar Prayaga R, Prayaga RS Mobile Fotonovelas Within a Text Message Outreach: An Innovative Tool to Build Health Literacy and Influence Behaviors in Response to the COVID- 19 Pandemic. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020;8(8):e19529

  • Brar Prayaga R, Agrawal R, Nguyen B,Jeong EW , Noble HK, Paster A, Prayaga RS Impact of Social Determinants of Health and Demographics on Refill Requests by Medicare Patients Using a Conversational Artificial Intelligence Text Messaging Solution: Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(11):e15771

  • Brar Prayaga R, Jeong EW , Feger E,Noble HK, Kmiec M, Prayaga RS Improving Refill Adherence in Medicare Patients With Tailored and Interactive Mobile Text Messaging: Pilot Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2018;6(1):e30

  • Hoffman H, Murray M, Danks M, Prayaga R, Irwin A, Vu D. A flexible and extensible object -oriented 3D architecture: application in the development of virtual anatomy lessons. Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997;39:461-6.

  • Prayaga; Ram, et al, Mobile Content Attribute Recommendation Engine-USPTO 20200065347 (11/5/19)

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