NRP Tenant Pragati Makes Knowledge Connections
NASA Research Park tenant Pragati Synergetic Research Inc. is planning for a bright future.
“My long-term plan is to add value to existing information systems by providing a high-end analysis tool for information reuse, interoperability and quality assurance," said founder and CEO Mala Mehrotra, sitting in her sunny office in Bldg. 19 at the Research Park. The company’s vision, she noted, is to provide innovative software solutions for data analysis.
Since joining the NRP in June 2005, Pragati has spent the past few years designing a proprietary software suite called Expozé.
Expozé is a clustering tool aimed at ferreting out interesting patterns of information from large, complex information systems, such as those found at government agencies like NASA, the intelligence community and the DOD, explains Mehrotra. True to its name, Expozé exposes hidden patterns in the data and helps analyze key information for its end users.
In 2004, under a Phase I SBIR at Ames, Pragati used the Expozé tool suite in a pilot study to analyze safety-related reports written by airline pilots. The conceptual clusters discovered by Expozé revealed regular patterns of preventive measures pilots took when conditions such as turbulence, icy conditions, or birds flying into the blade fans occurred in flight. A laundry list of preventive measures on how to avoid similar accidents in the future could be drawn up from Pragati’s analysis.
Although currently Pragati has a PHASE II SBIR with the Office of Naval Research, it has previously served various federal agencies such as DARPA, NASA, the Air Force and the Dept. of Transportation. Pragati is looking forward to Phase III, the commercialization of Expozé’s tool suite with the Army, the Air Force’s Rome Labs and the intelligence community. With wider exposure in mind, Pragati is also pursuing potential collaborations at NASA Ames’ Information Technology directorate.
Mehrotra’s two years at the NRP have been valuable. “I like the quiet, campus-like atmosphere, yet there are always people to talk to,” she said.
Pragati has a team of six -- three software developers, a software architect, a business development manager and a business adviser.
Ames staff may visit Pragati, at their display in Ames Mega Bytes Cafe on April 5, 10 and 17. Pragati offers high-end analysis tools for the reuse, interoperability and quality assurance of information systems. The company is interested in collaborative projects that would include its Expose knowledge engineering software suite.
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