Anirvan Chatterjee
Director of Data Strategy
CTSI
School of Medicine

Anirvan Chatterjee (he/him/ও/সে) is the Director of Data Strategy at UCSF's Clinical & Translational Science Institute. He studied information science at UC Berkeley, and was previously founder/CEO of BookFinder.com, an early ecommerce search engine for used and rare books (now a subsidiary of Amazon.com).

His recent projects include UCSF and UC Health's clinical trials finders, UCSF and UC Profiles and associated API platform, and a wide variety of AI/LLM, bibliometric, data mining, open source, and search-focused design work across the research enterprise. He offers research consultations on data visualization, SEO, and LLM/Versa-based applications via CTSI's consultation services unit.

Awards

  • SPOT Star Award, UCSF, 2025
  • SPOT Star Award, UCSF, 2024
  • SPOT Star Award, UCSF, 2023
  • SPOT Star Award, UCSF, 2022
  • UC Tech Yvonne Tevis Golden Award for Collaboration (with the Research Technology team), University of California, 2022
  • SPOT Star Award, UCSF, 2021
  • Consultation Services Excellence Award, UCSF, 2021
  • Honorable Mention, Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology (UC TrialFinder), University of California, 2019
  • SPOT Star Award, UCSF, 2017
  • Great People Award (with the Research Technology team), UCSF School of Medicine, 2016
  • Larry L. Sautter Gold Award for Innovation in Information Technology (UC TrialQuest), University of California, 2016
  • Communicator of the Year, UCSF Communicators Network, 2013
  • Larry L. Sautter Gold Award for Innovation in Information Technology (UCSF Profiles), University of California, 2013
  • IT Innovation Contest, UCSF, 2012

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019

Websites

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Publications (2)

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