Deepishka Pemmasani graduated with an MS in Health Informatics in May 2025.
Deepishka completed Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) in 2019 from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. During her undergraduate studies, she was involved in research on drug-related problems, clinical Pharmacist interventions, and adverse reactions to Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) therapy in a tertiary care hospital in India.
Before enrolling for the master’s degree at IUPUI, she worked as a Pharmacovigilance Operations Specialist at IQVIA RDS (India) Private Limited for four years. In this role, she was involved in processing Individual case safety reports (ICSR) received from spontaneous reporting, solicited clinical studies, and reporting them to regulatory authorities.
At the Purkayastha lab, Deepishka worked on the data analysis of exercise recommender system, working in collaboration with a faculty from the IU School of Health and Human Sciences. She is also working in collaboration with a faculty at MIT, on analyzing the impact of datathons through data collected on participants and their publications before and after attending a datathon.
Her research interests include the implementation of Electronic Medical Records, Health Information Exchange, data analytics, and machine learning.