AI strategy & architecture
Turning executive ambition into technical roadmaps, data platforms and agentic systems that teams can deliver.
Founder
Kamalika Patra
Founder & Principal Scientist
AI architect, researcher and economist, working where data science, cognitive science and complex biology meet.
Kamalika Patra has led AI strategy and architecture for the finance function of a global technology group, guiding a team once seen as the organisation’s biggest AI sceptics to first place in agentic-AI adoption within four months. Before that came four years in a major European bank’s AI centre of excellence and sector research team: forecasting, causal inference and recommender work worth millions a year, and workshops teaching colleagues machine learning and ethical AI.
Kamalika Patra is a PhD researcher in machine learning & data science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute, researching causal machine learning and knowledge-representation learning, with an MSc in quantitative economics (cum laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a minor in philosophy. Parijata Labs brings these threads together with first-hand experience of complex chronic illness.
Track record
Change that sticks, measured.
- 105×rise in AI proofs of concept built by non-technical finance staff
- 4 monthsfrom biggest AI sceptics to 1st in agentic-AI adoption across the group
- 36%of a core finance team upskilled into data-savvy superusers in 3 months
- 100+person executive workshops, live demos and hackathons led
Expertise
Change management
Aligning leadership with grass-roots initiatives, building AI literacy and growing teams that keep going after the consultant leaves.
Causal & cognitive AI research
Causal machine learning, knowledge representation and cognition-inspired models for complex, multi-system disease.
Economics & policy
Causal and econometric evidence for policy, with published research and briefings for a national ministry.
Teaching & speaking
Lectures, keynotes and workshops on AI, scientific method and the philosophy of science, for experts and newcomers alike.
Lived experience
An insider’s view of complex chronic illness, and of where today’s tools fall short.
Publications
- Patra, K., Neuteboom, N., Kapetanios, G. & Ventouri, A. (2025). Reducing labour market flexibility: a causal inference study on reform in the Netherlands. Economics Letters, 247, 112198.
- Patra, K. & Neuteboom, N. (2022). Reducing labor market flexibility: a causal inference study on reform in the Netherlands. Working paper, SSRN.
- Patra, K. (2020). Lagged and gender heterogeneous effects of unemployment compensation extensions in the Great Recession. MSc thesis, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Talks & speaking
- Transforming into AI-First Finance
Prosus Finance Summit · talk
- Executive workshops, live demos & hackathons
Prosus · 100+ participant sessions on AI literacy, use-case discovery and prompt engineering, 2024–present
- Causal effects of the Balanced Labour Market Act
Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) · 2022
- Causal effects of the Balanced Labour Market Act
European Economics and Finance Society Conference · June 2022
- Causal effects of the Balanced Labour Market Act
ROA, Maastricht University · 2022
- Workshops on computing, machine learning & ethical AI
ABN AMRO · internal programme, 2022–2024
Events
- Agents in Production: AI Marketplace 2024
Prosus Group × MLOps Community · Nxt Museum, Amsterdam, livestreamed · 2024 · Event announcement
In the media
The 2021 research on the Balanced Labour Market Act (WAB) made headlines in 95% of Dutch newspapers. A selection of coverage and interviews:
- Economics & policyInterview in De Telegraaf on the WAB, as reported by DutchNews.nl: “Mass sackings followed new rules on temporary contracts”Sept 2021
- Economics & policyRADAR (AVROTROS): 77.000 arbeidsrelaties opgezegd door WAB, vrouwen onevenredig hard getroffenSept 2021
- Economics & policyAccountant.nl: ABN Amro: arbeidswet heeft niet tot meer vaste contracten geleidSept 2021
- Economics & policyBanken.nl: ABN AMRO: ‘WAB leidt tot massale opzegging tijdelijke contracten’Sept 2021
- Economics & policyFollow the Money: Jaarlijks hebben duizenden flexwerkers recht op ontslagvergoeding, maar ze krijgen die haast nooitJan 2024
- TelecomComputable: ABN Amro hekelt blinde 5G-veilingFeb 2021
Speaking
Lectures, podcasts and executive sessions.
- Why complex chronic illness breaks today’s medical AI, and what could fix it
- Cognitive AI: models that reason rather than just recognise
- Engineering cognition: metacognition, or thinking about thinking, in people and machines
- From AI sceptics to AI-first: change management that actually works
- Causal inference for decision-makers
- The scientific method in practice: philosophy of science for AI, data and biomedical research teams
Dig in together
Bring the problem nobody has cracked yet.
The messy dataset, the half-formed hypothesis, the case three specialists could not explain. We will pull it apart with you, test ideas fast and find the thread that ties it all together.